Reid v. Rhode Island Company

The plaintiff, on the second day of August, 1902, was a passenger upon one of the defendant's cars running on Weeden street in the city of Pawtucket. It was necessary for this car to stop on Weeden street until a certain hour, to permit another car to pass. On this occasion, instead of stopping the car at the usual place, which was further down the street, the conductor stopped the car directly opposite the home plate of a ball field where a game of baseball was in progress, as it appears from his own evidence, that he might watch the game. Two or three minutes after the car was stopped a…