Bacon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

These are two actions to recover for personal injuries, and for damage to an automobile which was in collision with an electric car of the defendant on October 4, 1923. At the time of the collision the plaintiff in the first case was operating the automobile, and her husband (the plaintiff in the second case) was riding with her. There was evidence from which the jury might have found that the plaintiffs were in the exercise of due care and that the defendant’s motorman was negligent.

The automobile was owned by the plaintiff in the first case, and in 1923 was registered in the name of “Alice…