Chandler v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

The plaintiff appealed from a decision of the Appellate Division vacating a finding in his favor by the trial judge for damage to his automobile when it was struck by the overswing of the defendant’s street car as it proceeded onto a curve from Beach Street to Ocean Avenue in Revere on the evening of May 5, 1951.

The plaintiff’s son was operating the automobile for his own personal pleasure with the plaintiff’s permission. The son, as he drove easterly along Beach Street, observed that the street car was stopped at the intersection of Ocean Avenue which runs in a general northerly and…