McPartland v. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad

This is an action of tort in which the plaintiff, Mary McPartland, seeks to recover for personal injuries received by her while getting upon a passenger car of the defendant railroad at its Point of Pines station on August 24, 1918.

The evidence warranted the jury in finding that the plaintiff came to the station for the purpose of taking a train for Lynn, which she called the 9:05 p.m. train. She was accustomed to take this train. In the judge’s charge, it is stated that she had a ticket for transportation. There was a train scheduled to stop at 9:07 p.m.; but the time-table posted in the…