Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on July 6, 1912, from being struck in the left eye by a piece of metal by reason of an explosion on a car of the defendant while the plaintiff was waiting for a car at the defendant’s station at Brookline Village in the centre of Washington Street' in the town of Brook-line.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on July 6, 1912, from being struck in the left eye by a piece of metal by reason of an explosion on a car of the defendant while the plaintiff was waiting for a car at the defendant’s station at Brookline Village in the centre of Washington Street' in the town of Brook-line. Writ dated August 6, 1912. The declaration originally contained four counts, but the plaintiff at the beginning of the trial discontinued as to his third and fourth counts, and the trial proceeded on the first and second. The first count alleged negligent operation of…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff, when injured, was standing on the covered platform in the centre of Washington Street, Brookline, which was used by the defendant as a regular stop*477ping place and also as a point of transfer for its passengers. The time was about half past ten on the evening of July 6, 1912. An inward bound, large, semi-convertible car either was coming to a standstill, or just starting up, when there occurred a noise described as an “explosion,” accompanied by a flash and smoke, and at the same time the plaintiff, who stood about opposite the centre of the car, and six feet back from it, was…
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