Dion v. Ray's Checker Cab Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries in which the trial judge found for the defendant. The facts are succinctly stated in the following special finding of the trial judge :

“In response to a telephone call from the plaintiff the defendant sent a taxi cab to the plaintiff’s home. Upon arrival the plaintiff got in the cab instructed the driver to take her to Dr. Burke’s office in Quincy Square. While enroute the taxicab stopped at a house off Centre St. Quincy. When the taxicab came to a stop the door was opened by some person and a woman threw a lady’s handbag into the taxicab which…