Williamson v. Cambridge Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned, to the plaintiff by being thrown from the defendant’s horse car, in which she was a passenger, while attempting to alight therefrom, through the alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned, to the plaintiff by being thrown from the defendant’s horse car, in which she was a passenger, while attempting to alight therefrom, through the alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants. Trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows: The plaintiff introduced'evidence tending to show that the defendant’s horse car, (it being an open car,) having arrived at or near its usual place for stopping, in Bowdoin Square in Boston, came to a full stop ; that then the plaintiff proceeded to alight from…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
This case cannot be distinguished from Lane v. Bryant, 9 Gray, 245. That was an action for injury to the plaintiff’s carriage by collision with the defendant’s wagon driven by his servant. A witness was asked “ what the servant ■ said to the plaintiff at the time of the accident, and while the plaintiff was being extricated from his carriage, and while the crowd was about.” The reply, that the servant said the plaintiff was not to blame, was admitted, and an exception to ■its admission was sustained. Mr. Justice Bigelow, in delivering the opinion of the court, said, in language which well…
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