Sharp v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

There was testimony tending to show that the plaintiff, in order to pass a slow moving truck, turned his automobile on to surface tracks between posts supporting the elevated structure of the defendant; that before doing so he looked back a distance of fifty or sixty feet and saw no trolley car, and then put out his hand in token of intention to turn; and that after getting upon the rails he travelled ten or fifteen feet when the rear of the automobile *108was struck by a trolley car, which he had passed some distance back while it was at a standstill at a regular stopping place. The plaintiff…