Newton v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries and property damage growing out of a collision between an automobile operated by the plaintiff and a trolley car of the defendant at a point on Coburn Avenue, a public highway in the city of Worcester, where the defendant’s track, coming from a private way, crosses. At the close of all the evidence the defendant filed a motion for a directed verdict in its favor, and to the denial of this motion it duly exceptéd. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The judge reserved leave to enter a verdict for the defendant under G. L. c.…