Quimby v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff, in 1919, while a passenger of the defendant, *365through the negligence of its servants. The defendant offered in evidence, as bearing on damages, a statement signed by a physician, deceased at the time of the trial, concerning an injury received by the plaintiff in a station of the defendant in 1910. The judge remarked, when objection to this evidence was made by the plaintiff, that the requirement of the statute was that the deceased must have made the statement of facts of…