Bigelow v. West End Street Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while leaving an open electric car of the defendant on Charles Street in Boston, near Chestnut Street, between nine and ten o’clock in the morning of July 14, 1892. Charles Street runs north and south, and is crossed at right angles by *394Mount Vernon Street, Chestnut Street, and Beacon Street the first street named being north of Chestnut Street, and the last south of it. The car was going in a southerly direction. The seats in the car ran across it, and the plaintiff, before she attempted to leave the car, sat on the westerly…