Parker v. Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries caused by the plaintiff slipping on an icy step as she was leaving a street car of the defendant on December 8, 1914. Writ dated July 3,1915; The action wop tried in the Superior Court before Aiken, C. J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered in its favor. The motion was denied.
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Tort for personal injuries caused by the plaintiff slipping on an icy step as she was leaving a street car of the defendant on December 8, 1914. Writ dated July 3,1915; The action wop tried in the Superior Court before Aiken, C. J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved that a verdict be ordered in its favor. The motion was denied. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,585; and, at the request of the defendant, the Chief Justice reported the case for determination by this court, judgment to be entered for the defendant if…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff recovered damages for personal injuries sustained by slipping upon ice and snow on the step of an electric car while alighting therefrom. She was injured on December 8, 1914, about eight o’clock in the morning. The car left the barn about seven o’clock in the morning and went to Newton Corner. It then proceeded to Waltham where the plaintiff became a passenger, and at Waverley, at the end of the route, she was injured. It rained during the night of December 7. On the morning of December 8 “there was a mixture of sleet and rain . . . turning into light snow from 7.45 a.m. to…
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