Spaulding v. Quincy & Boston Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the servants of the defendant in starting an electric car of the defendant while the plaintiff was alighting from it. Writ dated May 19, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court Sherman, J. ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
On October 16, 1897, the plaintiff was travelling from Taunton to Boston by the street cars, on his way to Manchester, New Hampshire, for which place he intended to take a train that would leave Boston at half past seven o’clock in the evening. Soon after he had passed Holbrook he inquired of the conductor whether the electric car would reach Boston in time to enable him to take that train, and was told that probably it would not, and that to reach the train it would be well for him to leave the electric car and take a steam car, either at Braintree or Quincy. As the defendant’s electric…
2Cited by1 opinion
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