Lipski v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s surface cars. She boarded the car at South Boston, near the corner of Washington and Boylston streets, she alighted and walked in the rear of the car “ about a foot ” from it, intending to cross the outbound tracks on Washington Street, and transfer to a Boylston Street car; she was struck by another car of the defendant, moving in an opposite direction on the outbound track.

She testified through an interpreter that she was listening, “ walking slow to hear,” and heard no sound of the gong or bell from the approaching car; that she knew…