Walsh v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff properly admits that ordinary jerks or lurches in the stopping or starting of an electric street car do not constitute negligence in handling the car, and do not subject the operating company to liability, even though damage to a passenger results. McGann v. Boston Elevated Railway, 199 Mass. 446. She contends, however, that in this case there is evidence of something more than an ordinary jerk or lurch. The conductor had undertaken to stop the car at her stopping place. When she got up to leave the car it was going very fast and gave no indication of stopping where she had…