Jones v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff by reason of her having been thrown down by the starting of a street car of the defendant as» she was alighting from it in the Scollay Square station of the subway in Boston; the second by the husband of the plaintiff in the first for loss sustained by reason of her injuries.
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Two actions of tort, the first for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff by reason of her having been thrown down by the starting of a street car of the defendant as» she was alighting from it in the Scollay Square station of the subway in Boston; the second by the husband of the plaintiff in the first for loss sustained by reason of her injuries. Writs dated August 21, 1908. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Lawton, J. Besides the plaintiff in the first action, three witnesses testified for the plaintiff as to the circumstances of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The presiding judge was not obliged to select *554any portion of the evidence introduced by the plaintiffs, whether given by one witness or more, and rule upon its effect independently of the other evidence bearing upon the same issue; and therefore there was no error of law in refusing the first four rulings requested by the defendant.
The counsel for the plaintiffs in his closing argument declared that the defendant had not produced certain witnesses whose names he argued were on certain slips of paper in the possession of the Boston Elevated Railway, and he argued that the failure of the…
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