Adams v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first by a minor, by her next friend, for personal injuries sustained on October 31, 1913, when the plaintiff was six years and ten months of age, from being struck by a street railway car operated by the defendant on Dudley Street in the part of Boston called Roxbury; and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for the amount of doctors’ bills and other expenses incurred by reason of her injuries.
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Two actions of tort, the first by a minor, by her next friend, for personal injuries sustained on October 31, 1913, when the plaintiff was six years and ten months of age, from being struck by a street railway car operated by the defendant on Dudley Street in the part of Boston called Roxbury; and the second by the father of the plaintiff in the first case for the amount of doctors’ bills and other expenses incurred by reason of her injuries. Writs dated February 17, 1914. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Lawton, J. At the close of the evidence, which is described in…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The first of these actions is by a child, who will be called the plaintiff hereafter, to recover for personal injuries received by her, while travelling on foot on Dudley Street in Roxbury, by coming into contact with a car of the defendant; and the second is by her father to recover his expenses incurred incident to these injuries. The plaintiff, who at the time of the accident was about six and one half years old, testified in substance, that being on the sidewalk and having seen a yellow car on the farther track come to a stop and people waiting to get on it, and having let a green car on…
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