Robinson v. Northampton Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff’s intestate in alighting from an open car of the defendant, on May 31, 1890. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The plaintiff complains, in his declaration, that the street car at or near the junction of Paradise Road, so called, and Elm Street, was suddenly started up without notice to his intestate, whereby she, being a passenger upon it, was thrown upon the ground and injured. He introduced evidence tending to show that the intestate told the conductor 11 that she wished to get off at Paradise Road, and that the conductor nodded his head.” The plaintiff’s counsel asked the court to instruct the jury that, if the intestate “gave notice to the conductor where she intended to get off the car, he was…
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