Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 18, 1910 (Black v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.)

Loring, J.

The plaintiff testified that she was standing up with her hand through the loop of “ the strap,” and her thumb on the outside; that she had hold of the strap “ firmly,” and that “ the strap was wrenched right out of my hand ” by the car’s stopping “ very suddenly,” more suddenly than she ever had seen a car stop, although she had been in the habit of riding on electric cars “ for a