Cronin v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries caused by a fall on a stairway of the defendant’s station at Beach Street in Boston. Writ dated November 14,- 1916. In the Superior Court the ease was tried before Hall, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant made no requests for rulings.
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Tort for personal injuries caused by a fall on a stairway of the defendant’s station at Beach Street in Boston. Writ dated November 14,- 1916. In the Superior Court the ease was tried before Hall, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant made no requests for rulings. The last two paragraphs of the charge of the judge were as follows: “When you gentlemen go out into the jury room, start this case and work it out, not on the lines of my charge especially — I am only giving you the law with perhaps some suggestions that I hope are practical — but start with that…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars and when descending the exit stairway of its station at Beach Street, on July 30,1916, fell and was injured. The plaintiff testified that the cause of her fall was a loose screw which projected from the tread of the top step and that the metal tread of this step was loose. She was cut and bruised as the result of the fall, and contended she was so bruised that a cancer developed on her right breast, which was later removed by an operation.
It was not questioned that the plaintiff was a passenger and by her fall was slightly injured.…
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