Lanci v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort under R. L. c. Ill, § 267, by the administrator of Mary Fama, whose death was alleged to have been caused while she was a passenger of the defendant by reason of gross negligence of the defendant’s servants. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated May 20, 1903. There was a trial before Bell, J., who, at the close of the evidence, directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, a woman about forty years of age, stepped from the forward end of one of the defendant’s cars while it was in motion, fell and was killed. The only question in the case is whether there was any evidence that the accident was caused by the gross negligence of the defendant’s servants.
The accident happened on Tremont Street in Boston, between Whittier Street and Vernon Street, in the evening of October 8, 1902. The vehicle was an ordinary closed car, containing at the time not more than fifteen passengers. The plaintiff’s intestate sat on the right hand side, in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Bjornquist v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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- Caswell v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
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