Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained on October 9, 1913, when the plaintiff was a passenger on a semi-convertible street railway-car of the defendant at about a quarter before nine o’clock in the evening on Cambridge Street in Cambridge between Sixth Street and Seventh Street.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained on October 9, 1913, when the plaintiff was a passenger on a semi-convertible street railway-car of the defendant at about a quarter before nine o’clock in the evening on Cambridge Street in Cambridge between Sixth Street and Seventh Street. Writ dated November 14, 1913. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Dana, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, which is described in the opinion, the judge ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while a passenger on one of the defendant’s prepayment cars. On direct examination, she testi*406tied that, as she was about to deposit her fare, after getting within the body of the car, it backed and then started forward; “then I got a grip ... on the bar . . . and the car took a sudden lurch forward again and broke my grip on the bar and threw me . . . .” This testimony, singularly similar in crucial words to those used by this court in Lacour v. Springfield Street Railway, 200 Mass. 34, would have been enough…
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