Donoghue v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff, a permanent member of the Holyoke fire department, while returning from a fire May 4, 1918, was injured by reason of a collision between the fire truck on which he was riding and a trolley car of the defendant. When the collision occurred the plaintiff, who was a ladder man, was standing on the running board. He testified that, as the truck turned into Main Street from Hamilton Street, it was moving at the rate of four miles an hour; that he heard a crash and started to climb to the top of the ladder; that the running board began to crack and he was pinned between the car and…