Gustafson v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

By this action of tort the plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries allegedly sustained as the result of being struck and knocked down by the defendant’s bus.

The reported evidence all came from the plaintiff, who testified that on Sunday, April 5, 1953, he had been at the House of Murphy from 8 p.m. to about 11:30 p.m., where he watched television; that he had two beers and was perfectly sober at the time of the accident; that he was standing at a bus stop on Centre Street, near Jackson Square, in Boston and saw an MTA bus coming out wide in the centre of *59the road through the square…