Young v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained when the plaintiff was a passenger on an electric street car of the defendant on Lynn Street in the town of Peabody on the evening of January 27, 1910. Writ dated March 29, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Fessenden, J. The plaintiff testified that he boarded a car of the defendant at Peabody Square about 8.35 o’clock in the evening to go to his home on Lynn Street in Peabody; that he had been travelling over this…
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Tort for personal injuries sustained when the plaintiff was a passenger on an electric street car of the defendant on Lynn Street in the town of Peabody on the evening of January 27, 1910. Writ dated March 29, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Fessenden, J. The plaintiff testified that he boarded a car of the defendant at Peabody Square about 8.35 o’clock in the evening to go to his home on Lynn Street in Peabody; that he had been travelling over this route morning, noon and night for about three years; that the track on Lynn Street was a single track with a turnout in…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The question of the plaintiff’s due care was for the jury. It could be found that when he left his seat he had signalled for the car to be stopped at a regular stopping place which it was approaching, and that he had a right to expect, although that had not yet been done, that the speed of the car would be slackened and the car stopped to allow him to alight. In this respect the case resembles in principle Farnon v. Boston & Albany Railroad, 180 Mass. 212. It is not necessarily negligent for a passenger, even upon a steam railroad when the train is coming to a station at which he is to…
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- McGann v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Barden v. Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Webber v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
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