Lacour v. Springfield Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF TORT, the first for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff and due to her having fallen upon the floor of a platform of a car of the defendant because the car was started suddenly as she was in the act of entering it. The second action was by the husband of the plaintiff in the first. Writs in the Superior Court for the county of Hampden dated April 16, 1907, and February 11, 1908, respectively.
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Two ACTIONS OF TORT, the first for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff and due to her having fallen upon the floor of a platform of a car of the defendant because the car was started suddenly as she was in the act of entering it. The second action was by the husband of the plaintiff in the first. Writs in the Superior Court for the county of Hampden dated April 16, 1907, and February 11, 1908, respectively. The cases were tried together before Wait, J., and verdicts were found for the plaintiffs. The defendant alleged exceptions. The facts are stated in the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
If Mrs. Lacour’s story was believed, there was a case for the jury in both cases. Her story was that she signalled a small closed electric car, belonging to the defendant, to stop for her, and that when she had one foot on the step and the other on the platform, and while she was in the act of bringing on to the platform the foot on the step, the conductor signalled to the motorman to start the car, and it started forward suddenly and with such a jerk that it broke a good hold which she had on one of the brass rods across the rear window, and she was thrown against the controller with such…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- McGann v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Gordon v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Weeks v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Sauvan v. Citizens' Electric Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Hamilton v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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- Smith v. Boston Elevated Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1911
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- Nolan v. Newton Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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