Hurd v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.

At the close of the evidence introduced at the trial by the plaintiff bearing upon the question of liability, the defendant rested its case and duly filed a motion requesting the trial judge to direct a verdict for the defendant. The case comes before this court on exceptions duly saved to the refusal of the judge so to do.

The bill of exceptions contains all the material evidence, and, in substance, discloses that a “one-man passenger car” of the defendant at 9:30 p.m., August 31,1921, on a dark and perfectly clear night, collided with a Cole touring car of the plaintiff, each of the…