Doherty v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF tort, the first action by a married woman for personal injuries sustained on July 28, 1908, at a little after 11.25 A. M., while the plaintiff was being transported as a passenger on an open electric car of the defendant, by reason of a collision of the car with a horse and wagon at the intersection of Flint Street with Boston Street in Lynn, as the car was going along Boston Street on the single track at the side of that street about four or five feet from…
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Two ACTIONS OF tort, the first action by a married woman for personal injuries sustained on July 28, 1908, at a little after 11.25 A. M., while the plaintiff was being transported as a passenger on an open electric car of the defendant, by reason of a collision of the car with a horse and wagon at the intersection of Flint Street with Boston Street in Lynn, as the car was going along Boston Street on the single track at the side of that street about four or five feet from the sidewalk; and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first action for loss suffered in consequence…
1Opinion of the CourtRuGG, J.
The female plaintiff (hereafter referred to as the plaintiff) seeks to recover for personal injuries received, while a passenger in one of the defendant’s cars, by reason of its collision at the junction of two streets with a horse-drawn covered wagon. The track of the defendant was on the side of the street. View of the car by travellers upon the intersecting street, as well as the vision of the motorman of travellers upon that street, was obstructed until the car had nearly reached the corner of the streets. There was evidence that the speed of the car was seven or eight miles an hour, and…
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- Byron v. Lynn & Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
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