Pratt v. City of Peabody

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while alighting from an electric car on Lynn Street, a public way in the defendant city. It was admitted that due notice of the time, place and cause of the plaintiff’s injuries was given by her to the defendant. It was agreed that the street at the place where the plaintiff was injured was more than fifty feet wide; that there were sidewalks on each side of the street, and a line of street railway tracks, six to eight feet from the line of the easterly sidewalk, ran north and south.

The plaintiff testified…