Lyons v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort against the Boston Elevated Railway Company, the first by a married woman for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when the plaintiff was entering the centre door of a car forming part of a train of the defendant at its Dover Street station in Boston at about one o’clock in the afternoon of May 25, 1906, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first for damages suffered by him by reason of her injuries.
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Two actions of tort against the Boston Elevated Railway Company, the first by a married woman for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when the plaintiff was entering the centre door of a car forming part of a train of the defendant at its Dover Street station in Boston at about one o’clock in the afternoon of May 25, 1906, and the second action by the husband of the plaintiff in the first for damages suffered by him by reason of her injuries. Writs dated July 16, 1906. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Fox, J. At the close of the plaintiffs’ evidence, the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
While the female plaintiff was entering one of the defendant’s cars by its middle door, which had just been opened as the car came to a stop, she observed a number of. bundles in the doorway, one of which she moved, and over another of which she stumbled and fell. There was no evidence as to the length of time they had been in the doorway nor as to their ownership, except that after she fell a passenger came from the other side of the car and took them away. The only description given of them was that they were good sized brown paper parcels, the taller one being about as high as the knee. It…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Goddard v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- Pitcher v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Thomas v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
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