Carson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This action of tort for personal injuries was begun by Mary H. Carson, but is prosecuted by her mother and administratrix. The plaintiff’s intestate on October 13, 1934, at the Arlington Street station of the defendant, having paid her fare before entering the subway, suffered injury while boarding one of its street cars. Evidence for the plaintiff tended to show that the intestate, firmly holding the upright iron rod with her right hand, had her right foot on the car step and her left foot still higher on the vestibule floor, when the car started with a lurch or jerk, and simultaneously the…