Noonan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff on March 16, 1920, was a passenger on a car of the defendant which ran from Andrew Square, Dorchester, to Neponset Bridge. She intended to change at the Neponset car yard for a Quincy car, which was waiting at a car barn some distance south on Neponset Avenue. On numerous occasions before the day of the accident the car had stopped out on Neponset Avenue on the straight rail, and the plaintiff had crossed the sidewalk and the tracks thereon in front of the waiting car. At Neponset Bridge a curved track leaves the main track, crosses the westerly sidewalk on Neponset Avenue, and…