Jameson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action at common law for the suffering endured by the plaintiff’s testator as a result of a fall in a car of the defendant. .

The plaintiff testified that the testator was an old man ; (it is stated in the plaintiff’s brief that he was about sixty-seven;) that “ he showed his age the last year or two, and . . . seemed to be more feeble ”; that “ he walked feebly, sort of shuffled along a little, not always, but at times ”; that “ his hair was. very white, he had grown quite thin ... his clothes were loose about him.”

He had a factory in Chauncy Street, Boston, and lived in *561Cambridge.…