Neale v. Springfield Street Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injuries from being struck by an electric car of the defendant. In the Superior Court, at the close of the evidence for the plaintiff, the judge ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover and directed a verdict for the defendant. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s exceptions.

*352The accident occurred shortly after seven o’clock in the evening of February 23, 1903, at a point about a quarter of a mile eastwardly from the village of Feeding Hills in the town of Agawam, in a sparsely settled neighborhood. In the vicinity of the place of the accident the…