Renzi v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

These are two actions of tort which were tried together in the Superior Court to a jury. In the first case Carolina Renzi seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her in falling on a stairway of the defendant at the Green Street elevated station in Boston, due to the presence of a "foreign substance which the defendant ^allegedly] negligently permitted to remain thereon.” In the second case Dominick Renzi, husband of the plaintiff in the first action, seeks to recover for consequential damages incurred as a result of the said injuries sustained by his wife. For convenience,…