Schneider v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

These four actions of tort were brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained on June 7, 1920, by reason of a defective condition of the highway. In each case the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, subject to the plaintiff’s exception.

There was evidence that a hole in the street caused a truck owned by the Paine Furniture Company to turn a short distance out of its course and strike a truck driven by one of the plaintiffs, which then collided with a truck it was towing, and in which the other plaintiff was seated. The evidence tended to prove that for two or…