Cronin v. Highland Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for being expelled from a car of the defendant corporation on September 7, 1885. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: The plaintiff resides in the Charlestown District of Boston, and has his usual place of business at No. 16 Boylston Street, Boston. The defendant is a corporation owning and operating a street railway in Boston.
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Tort, for being expelled from a car of the defendant corporation on September 7, 1885. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: The plaintiff resides in the Charlestown District of Boston, and has his usual place of business at No. 16 Boylston Street, Boston. The defendant is a corporation owning and operating a street railway in Boston. On September 7,1885, at about 6.25 A. M., the plaintiff entered a car of the Middlesex Railroad Company, a corporation also owning and operating…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
It appears by a reference to the various statutes cited by the defendant, that formerly all the street railways in Boston met at or near a common central point, in what is now S coll ay Square; * and the original statute providing for commutation checks, St. 1864, o. 229, § 27, was passed for the purpose of enabling a passenger without paying two full fares to complete his passage to a point which could not be reached in the car in which he started. The statutes concerning street railways were revised in 1871, and consolidated into a general act, St. 1871, c. 381, and by § 36 it was provided…
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