Legal Opinion
Bartol v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 18, 1927PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRttgg, C.J.
The plaintiff, while a passenger on one of the cars operated by the Boston Elevated Railway Company, as she was alighting at the Haymarket Square Station in the Tremont Street subway, slipped on the step of the car and fell into the space between the car and the platform of the station. The evidence tended to show that the station platform was slightly curved at the regular berth where the car stopped, that it was constructed of concrete, and was raised eighteen inches above the level of. the roadbed. The nearest rail was thirty inches from the platform. The space between the car and the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Hill v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Bolster v. City of LawrenceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Prince v. CrockerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- City of Boston v. Treasurer & Receiver GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- Harris v. District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Baumgardner v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Hennessy v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- Orlando v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Collector of Taxes v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Abihider v. City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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