Curran v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff was driving along Eighth Street, in that part of Boston known as South Boston, when the hub of the front wheel of his wagon struck an iron pole, the property of the defendant, and he was thrown from the seat and injured.

It is agreed that Eighth Street was laid out in 1873 as a public way with a granite block roadway and granite curbstones; that the street was about fifty feet wide with double street car tracks in the centre which, with the space between them, occupied about thirteen feet in width; that on each side of the street was a brick sidewalk about eight feet wide, and a…