Risk v. City of Boston

The plaintiff seeks compensation for injuries from a fall alleged to have been sustained while stepping from a platform onto the street in a bus terminal at Maverick Square, East Boston. Actions of tort were commenced against thé city of Boston (hereinafter called the city), the Boston Elevated Railway Company (hereinafter called the Elevated) and Rapid Transit, Inc. (hereinafter called Transit), and. the cases were tried together. The plaintiff seeks to recover against Transit and the Elevated for negligence with respect to an alleged defective condition and want of repair of a certain…