Stevens v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff by the negligent starting of an electric street car of the defendant when he was in the act of alighting therefrom. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated July 6, 1905. There was a trial before Lawton, J. At the close of the evidence, which was stated in the opinion, the presiding judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted.
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Tort for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff by the negligent starting of an electric street car of the defendant when he was in the act of alighting therefrom. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated July 6, 1905. There was a trial before Lawton, J. At the close of the evidence, which was stated in the opinion, the presiding judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted. The plaintiff made no requests for rulings at the trial.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff, a man seventy-one years of age,
was a passenger on one of the defendant’s closed cars going east over Boylston Street in Boston about 10.55 P. M. on April 2, 1905. After passing Exeter Street he signalled the conductor to stop at Dartmouth Street. The white post indicating the stopping place for Dartmouth Street is east of the crossing, and the plaintiff -knew that a track runs north and south on Dartmouth Street in front of the Public Library, and joins the track here in question to the west of the crossing at Dartmouth and Boylston Streets, the switch for the Dartmouth Street…
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