Kuhlen v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries, originally against the Boston Elevated Railway Company and the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company. At the trial the plaintiff discontinued against the Boston Elevated Railway Company and prosecuted her case against the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company alone.
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Tort for personal injuries, originally against the Boston Elevated Railway Company and the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company. At the trial the plaintiff discontinued against the Boston Elevated Railway Company and prosecuted her case against the Boston and Northern Street Railway Company alone. Writ dated May 19, 1903. The plaintiff in her amended declaration alleged in substance that on February 18, 1903, she was injured while a passenger in and upon the defendant’s premises at the Scollay Square subway station in Boston; that the defendant owned or controlled a station there and…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
It is the duty of the defendant, as a carrier of passengers for hire, to use the highest degree of care consistent with the nature and extent of its business, not only to provide safe and suitable vehicles for their carriage, but to maintain all such reasonable arrangements for control and supervision both of the passengers and of its own servants as prudence would dictate to guard its passengers, while they occupy that relation, against all dangers that are naturally and according to the usual course of things to be expected. It is bound to select and employ a sufficient number of competent…
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- Gaynor v. Old Colony & Newport Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Bryant v. RichMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Dodge v. Boston & Bangor Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Putnam v. . B'dway Seventh Ave. R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
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- Nugent v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
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