Legal Opinion
Doyle v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 27, 1924PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWait, J.
About six o’clock on the windy afternoon of March 14, 1920, the plaintiff, accompanied by one Doyle, who has since become her husband, stood waiting in a doorway on the west side of Dorchester Avenue in Boston a few feet from the south side of Pearl Street, which crosses Dorchester Avenue at right angles. They were intending to take an inbound car of the defendant for Boston. The stopping point for inbound cars was on the opposite side of Dorchester Avenue to the north of Pearl Street, so that to take the car they would have to cross Pearl Street and the westerly half of Dorchester Avenue.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Duggan v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- Gibb v. HardwickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Stackpole v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Casey v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Kelsall v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Thomes v. Meyer Store Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- Falzone v. BurgoyneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Murphy v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
- Noyes v. WhitingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Joughin v. Federal Motor Transportation Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
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