Weir v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The intestates were struck by an electric street car and were killed. They were standing about a foot to the north of the street railway track laid in a reservation at a point where a paved crossing, constructed by public authority as a duly established break for highway purposes, extended across the reservation. They were struck by the right hand corner of the car which overhung the rails on which the car rested. To any one standing where they were the approaching car had been in sight for more than a thousand feet. It was lighted. It was moving at from thirty to thirty-five miles per hour.…