Loyle v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The evidence stated in. the report, taken most strongly for the plaintiff, permits findings that the engine of a touring car in which he was riding stalled as the- car was about to pass between the outbound track of the defendant in Highland Avenue, Somerville, and a coupé parked close to the right hand curb of the avenue; and that the plaintiff, who had been seated at the right of the driver, stepped from the touring car to the running board of the coupé, “nudged” his way, sidewise, forward in order to crank the engine,^ and was stooping to put his hand on the crank when an electric street…