Williams v. Citizens' Electric Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries to the plaintiff’s intestate, a passenger on an electric car of the defendant, resulting in his death after conscious suffering. Writ dated October 29,1901. In the Superior Court Lawton, J. ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
On the morning of November 4, 1900, about half an hour after midnight, the plaintiff’s intestate, while riding on the rear platform of one of the defendant’s cars, fell off and was killed. The theory of the plaintiff is that the patented device for opening and shutting the sliding door of the vestibule of the car was improper and unsafe, because in opening the door from the outside one must insert his fingers into a metallic slot sunk into the wood of the side of the door, near the main part of the car with which the door came in contact when it was closed, and that when the door was opened…
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