Forton v. Crosstown Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered a verdict in this action for injuries received by him while acting as motorman on one of the defendant’s electric cars. The accident happened on a stormy, rainy night. The plaintiff claims that, owing to the absence of proper hangers, he was unable to hang a curtain at the window of the car which was between the vestibule in which he stood and that part of the car used by passengers; that, owing to the absence of this curtain, the vestibule was flooded with light and prevented him from seeing ahead of the car into the darkness any considerable distance, which he…