Manley v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received, as stated in the opinion, when a milk wagon in which the plaintiff was travelling was struck at about half past six o’clock on the morning of October 26,1910, by an electric street car of the defendant on Crescent Street in Brockton. Writ dated December 6, 1911. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Keating, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received, as stated in the opinion, when a milk wagon in which the plaintiff was travelling was struck at about half past six o’clock on the morning of October 26,1910, by an electric street car of the defendant on Crescent Street in Brockton. Writ dated December 6, 1911. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Keating, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. One Dillon, an inspector in the employ of the defendant, in testifying for the defendant in direct examination, stated that he had interviewed the plaintiff in the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
At the time of the accident the defendant was operating a single track electric street railway between Brockton and Whitman. The track was in about the centre of Crescent Street, at its intersection with Plymouth Street, in Brockton, where the accident occurred.
Crescent Street runs in an easterly and westerly direction. Plymouth Street opens into Crescent Street from the north, and Crescent Place leads off the southerly side of Crescent Street about eighty-seven feet easterly of Plymouth Street. The distance from the cross walk at the head of Plymouth Street to the nearest or northerly rail…
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