Hallinan v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

These are three actions of tort in which the plaintiffs seek to recover damages for injuries received while riding as passengers on a car of the defendant. The jury returned verdicts for the plaintiffs and thereafter, subject to exception by the plaintiffs, the trial judge directed that verdicts be entered for the defendant in accordance with leave reserved under G. L. c. 231, § 120.

The testimony tended to prove that the three plaintiffs boarded the car at the same stopping place, entering through the front vestibule, the floor of which was one step down from the level of the car floor. It…