Landrigan v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injury and property damage alleged to have resulted from a collision on June 19, 1947, of the plaintiff’s truck with an electric street car of the Boston Elevated Railway Company on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Metropolitan Transit Authority has been substituted as defendant for the Boston Elevated Railway Company and is hereinafter referred to as the defendant. In its answer the defendant alleged that the plaintiff was *26not in the exercise of due care and that the truck involved in the accident was illegally registered. The…