Burrill v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff while a pedestrian on a public way, through the negligence of the motorman of a trolley car operated by the defendant. There was testimony tending to show that the plaintiff, intending to cross from the northerly to the southerly side of Broadway, a wide and busy street in Somerville, in the forenoon of a March day, looked for traffic, which was moving in both directions as she left the sidewalk, and, after hurrying between automobiles, reached a safety zone adjacent to the…