Massachusetts Appeals Court April 15, 1982 (Cook v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)

The defendants (the MBTA and one of its bus drivers) appeal from a judgment awarding the plaintiff damages for injuries that she sustained as a result of their alleged negligence, arguing error in the trial judge’s refusals to direct verdicts in their favor and to give certain requested instructions to the jury. Mass.R.Civ.P. 50(a) &c 51(b), 365 Mass. 814, 816 (1974).