Davey v. Greenfield & Turner's Falls Street Railway Co.

The evidence for the plaintiff tended to show that as an open electric car of the defendant approached Ames Street in Greenfield, going northerly on Federal Street, one Mrs. Weyraugh, her boy about seven years old, the plaintiff and her daughter, a girl of eighteen, stepped from the easterly sidewalk of Federal Street, and walked diagonally and northwesterly towards the car tracks with the intention of boarding it; that the street at this point was substantially clear of people except upon the sidewalk; that Mrs. Weyraugh was in advance of the others and signalled the motorman by holding up…