Boyd v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff sued for injuries received in the Andrew Square station of the defendant and set out in her declaration that she was caught, carried off her feet, and thrown against a column on the platform by a surging crowd negligently permitted to occupy the platform and constituting a dangerous state of affairs thereon, the defendant knowing such crowds were in the habit of surging and pushing in order more quickly to board or leave the defendant’s cars.

The case is before us upon two bills of exceptions; the first to the refusal to compel answer or more complete answer to *366certain…