Barnett v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained in a collision of a car of the defendant with a coal wagon driven by the plaintiff. Writ dated October 14, 1919. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Bell, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. By order of the judge, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff was struck by one of the defendant’s cars, at the corner of Victory Road and Freeport Street, Dorchester, and injured. Victory Road is a main thoroughfare running easterly from Field’s Corner, with two parallel car tracks of the defendant in the centre of the street. The southerly track is known as the outward track. On the southerly side of Victory Road and the westerly side of Freeport Street there is a fence about five feet high, “extending for some distance down both Freeport Street and Victory Road.” Twelve hundred feet from Freeport Street, Victory Road passes under a…
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