Shaw v. Tague

This is an ordinary negligence action. The jury was justified in finding that plaintiff, a widow aged fifty-five years, was struck by an automobile owned and operated by the defendant when she was waiting at a regular street car stop in the city of Rochester to board a street car; that she was careful and defendant was careless; that she was rendered unconscious; that she sustained injuries for which a verdict for $2,500 was, to say the least, not excessive.

On the trial, witnesses were permitted to testify that at the time of the accident plaintiff’s chestnut hair was just beginning to turn…