McCooe v. Dighton, Somerset, & Swansea Street Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injuries caused by a collision between two electric cars upon one of which the plaintiff was a motorman. The defence was that the plaintiff and the conductor of his car were acting against orders in not having waited for the other car at a turn-out, where they should have met it at seven o’clock. Evidence was offered that the plaintiff’s car left this turn-out before seven. On the other side, the conductor of the plaintiff’s car testified that he started nine or ten minutes late, and did not leave the turn-out until five minutes after seven. The running time…