Batchelder & Snyder Co. v. Union Freight Railroad

Wait, J;

The defendant is a switching carrier operating a line through Atlantic Avenue in Boston between the freight terminals of the Boston and Albany, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine railroads, and delivering cars at various private sidings which serve wharves and warehouses along the avenue. It has no freight station, but in 1922 had a public siding near its office at 87 Atlantic Avenue. Cars which it cannot “set,” that is, place at the consignee’s siding, it stores on such private sidings as are available at the moment. It has no facilities for icing cars,…