Stone v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

While crossing the tracks of the defendant on Washington Street in this city, near Guild Street, about nine o’clock in the forenoon of August 3, 1907, the plaintiff’s intestate, a man then sixty-three years of age, was struck by a car and killed.

The accident occurred in broad daylight. There is no evidence that the deceased received any invitation from the defendant or any one else to cross, nor that there were any other vehicles to complicate the situation or to distract his attention at the precise time of the accident. Nor was there anything to shut off the view of the car for at least…