Phillips v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort brought by the administrator of the estate of Edwin S. Phillips, to recover for his death. The evidence warranted the jury in finding the following facts:

The plaintiff’s intestate, a boy about twelve years of age, while riding a bicycle in the city of Malden, came into collision with an electric car of the defendant at the junction of Main and Judson streets, and received injuries from which he subsequently died without conscious suffering. The accident happened on May 12, 1913, at about half past six in the afternoon. The car which struck the intestate was running…