Riley v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover compensation for damage to her automobile caused by the negligent operation of a street car belonging to and operated by the defendant.

*177The automobile of the plaintiff was being driven by her agent on Brookline Street, in Cambridge, at about half past six in the afternoon of August 25, 1923. It was raining. The testimony of the plaintiff’s agent, in substance, was “that at the end of the car line (on Brookline Street) opposite the Ford plant, "an electric car was just starting off; that it began to move just as he got up to the…