Spellman v. Metropolitan Transit Authority

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been received while the plaintiff was alighting from a street car on September 4, 1945, at the defendant’s Lechmere station. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’s exception is to the admission of a letter dated September 8, 1945, which she wrote and sent to the defendant’s predecessor.

*447The issue at the trial was whether the car started as the plaintiff was alighting, as she testified, or whether after she alighted she was thrown down on the platform by some men hurrying to catch a bus. The…