Uggla v. West End Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while travelling on a highway, by the falling upon him of a piece of iron forming part of the overhead apparatus of the electric street railway owned and operated by the defendant corporation, in Park Square, in Boston. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff,-while driving on Park Square in Boston, was struck by a broken iron attached to a wire guy. The iron was part of an ear, used to clasp a trolley wire and apply to it a strain from the guy, in order to keep the trolley wire in place around a curve and over the defendant’s track. The ear broke with the strain, and one part of it fell, striking the plaintiff on his head. As to these facts there was no dispute at the trial, and there was no other evidence that the defendant was in fault. There was, however, other evidence, introduced by the defendant, that it was not guilty of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Durant v. BurtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Hutchinson v. Boston Gas Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
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- Gelinas v. New England Power Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
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