Brightman v. Union Street Railway Co.

In the first action the plaintiff sues in tort for-personal injuries, and her husband in the second action for consequential damages, alleged to have been caused by the negligence-of the defendant’s motorman. ,The report of the presiding judge * recites all the material evidence, and we shall refer to Mrs. Bright-man as the plaintiff.

It was undisputed, that the main line of the defendant on Purchase Street in New Bedford ran north and south, from which cars could be switched over a curved track into an intersecting-street running east and west. The plaintiff accompanied by a. companion stood…