Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 28, 1931PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This is an action of tort to recover damages for personal injuries. There was evidence that one of the defendant’s cars, which had just come from the car barn, had stopped at Harvard Square, Cambridge, to take on passengers, and was standing there with its rear door open and the lower step down, and that the plaintiff, a teacher on her way to school, entering this car with her hand on the bar, was stepping from the lower step to the rear platform of the car when the step folded up, threw her upon the platform and injured her. There was no direct evidence of the cause of the step’s folding up.…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Carroll v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- McNamara v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Bilodeau v. Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Washburn v. R. F. Owens Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Gardner v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Carson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Bannister v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Knych v. Trustees of New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Guinevan v. Checker Taxi Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Turner v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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