Convery v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.

These two actions were tried together. The first is brought to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars; she will hereafter be referred to as the plaintiff. The second is brought by her husband to recover for consequential damages arising from said injuries.

The plaintiff and her two nieces, six and eight years old, boarded a one man car, so called, of the defendant at a white post on Gorham Street in Lowell. The children went into the car first. The plaintiff paid her fare as she entered, and, seeing that her nieces had seated…