Williamson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

These are two actions of tort for personal injuries. The city of Boston and the Boston Elevated Bail-way Company are the defendants.

The plaintiff, a passenger in one of the cars of the railway company, in alighting from the car between five thirty and six o’clock on the evening of October 2, 1923, stepped into a hole or depression in the street and was injured. The street, it was agreed, "was an accepted street of the city of *231Boston.” Statutory notice was given the city. The depression was about two feet from the car track; it was from six to twelve inches deep and had existed for some time…