Marden v. Portsmouth, Kittery & York Street Railway

This is an action on the case for negligence resulting from a collision between the plaintiff’s cart and the defendant’s electric car. The case shows that the plaintiff on the loth day of June 1901, was driving a covered butcher’s cart along a public street in the town of Kittery in an easterly direction, parallel with the defendant’s road about three feet northerly thereof, the track being on the southerly side of the road. The highway and the track descend quite sharply towards the east, the grade being about six feet in one hundred. At the bottom of the grade, a cross street called…