DeLodge v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff while proceeding, at night, to cross Columbia Road from its easterly to its westerly side, at its intersection with Quincy Street in the Dorchester district of the city of Boston, was struck and injured by a north bound trolley car of the defendant. After a jury had returned a verdict for the plaintiff, the trial judge allowed a motion for the entry of a verdict for the defendant under leave reserved, and reported the case to this court. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231, § 111.

The following facts were not in dispute. In the center of Columbia Road there was a space twenty-five feet wide…