Johnson v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.

The only question argued is whether there was any evidence to support the finding that the defendant was negligent.

There was evidence that the plaintiff, a middle-aged woman, boarded the defendant’s motor bus at a regular stopping place in Pittsfield; that she had entered the bus, taken one step down the aisle “opposite the first seats” and had grasped the back of one of those seats, “when the operator started the bus with a sharp and quick jerk and a swing to the left; that by reason thereof, she lost her grip upon the seat, fell against the side of the second seat and thence to the floor”;…