Hilborn v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff brings this action to recover for personal injuries received while she was alighting from one of the defendant’s cars at the subway station in Scollay Square. The car was a closed car, of the shorter or four wheeled type. The station platform here runs nearly north and south, and has a curve at the south end, which begins about sixteen feet from the end of the platform, curving away from the tracks. This car was the first car in the station, and it was stopped not along the straight portion of the platform, where all parts of the car would have been equally distant from the…