Sarkise v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiff was an employee of the Lasell Shoe Company in Nashua. During the noon hour on the day of the accident he and several of his fellow employees were playing baseball on a rudely improvised diamond located partly on the shoe company’s land and partly on the land and tracks of the defendant. The tracks lay south of the factory and were four in number. The first was a spur track leading to the factory and branching off from the second track at an oblique angle.

Between these two tracks, at a point ten feet from their intersection and about a foot from the north rail of the second…