Goulding v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff when struck by an electric car of the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, but before it was recorded the trial judge reserved leave, with the consent of the jury, to enter a verdict for the defendant. Thereafter on motion of the defendant a verdict was entered in its favor.

On the day the plaintiff was injured he was a pedestrian on Harvard Bridge, a public highway connecting Boston with Cambridge, on which there were two lines of street car tracks. At the time of the accident, the surface on…