Thompson v. Lowell, Lawrence, & Haverhill Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort? for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, through the alleged negligence of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dunbar, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The evidence tended to establish the following facts. The defendant was the owner of an electric street railway between the cities of Lowell and Lawrence, arid owned and maintained a grove as a pleasure resort on the line of the railway.
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Tort? for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, through the alleged negligence of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Dunbar, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The evidence tended to establish the following facts. The defendant was the owner of an electric street railway between the cities of Lowell and Lawrence, arid owned and maintained a grove as a pleasure resort on the line of the railway. The grove was fitted up by the defendant as a place of public recreation and amusement, with certain permanent fixtures, among which were a pavilion…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The St. of 1895, c. 316, authorizes street railway companies to acquire, hold, equip, and maintain real estate to be used for purposes of recreation and for pleasure resorts, the admission being free. By virtue of this statute, the defendant *582maintained such a place on the line of its railway, which contained a large platform or stage for exhibitions. The defendant entered into a written contract with a manager, under which the latter furnished and managed various entertainments there, and amongst them an exhibition of marksmanship by a man born without hands. The defendant paid for…
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