Cross v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiff, a brakeman in the employ of the defendant in the first named action, hereinafter called the railroad, was injured by being crushed between the side of a coal car and a post on the premises of the defendant in the second action, hereinafter called the coal company.* The accident happened January 19, 1913, about half past three o’clock in the morning, at Beverly. The plaintiff was an experienced brakeman. He had been in the employ of the railroad for a period of eighteen or nineteen years; for seventeen years of that time he had worked at moving freight cars, and from 1910 to the…