Collins v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries suffered when the plaintiff, while she was waiting upon the platform of the Boylston Street subway station in Boston for an elevated train then passing through the subway, was pushed from her feet by the crowd and forced into an open space between the platform and the train. Writ dated July 3, 1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Wait, J. Material facts shown by the evidence are stated in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries suffered when the plaintiff, while she was waiting upon the platform of the Boylston Street subway station in Boston for an elevated train then passing through the subway, was pushed from her feet by the crowd and forced into an open space between the platform and the train. Writ dated July 3, 1907. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Wait, J. Material facts shown by the evidence are stated in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the judge ordered a verdict for the defendant and reported the case with the,following stipulation: “If my ruling is…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained while trying to board an elevated train in the subway station at Boylston Street. Her testimony was in substance that she waited there three or four minutes for the train: that there was a very large crowd, which grew larger and larger while she *421was waiting: that there wasn’t much chance to move up, there was such a crowd, “and just before the train came in, the crowd grew all around her; that as the car came in and the door opened ‘I was taken off my feet and I was pushed right into this space’ [by the] pushing crowd, the surging…
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