Powers v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by an alleged defect in Washington Street in the defendant city. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Staples, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which, so far as material to the points decided, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by a defect in a highway. The plaintiff was a conductor of a street car, and at the time of the accident was standing on the running-board of an open car, collecting fares, when he was knocked off and injured by being carried against a post planted in the highway within two inches of the edge of the running-board. The post was part of a barrier which had been put up as a guard where the street had caved in because of an excavation for a new building at the corner of Court Street and Washington Street.
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