Perry v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.

This is an action of tort brought by the plaintiff to recover damages sustained by his automobile as the result of a collision with an electric car of the defendant. At the close of the trial to a jury, the defendant filed a motion for a directed verdict. The motion was denied, the jury found for the plaintiff, and the case is before this court on the exceptions of the defendant duly taken and the refusal so to direct.

The accident happened on Broadway, in the city of Chelsea, at 11:45 a.m., near the corner where Eleanor Street intersects Broadway at right angles. Broadway at that point runs…