Carroll v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a freight handler for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant while the plaintiff was employed at its station at Millville. Writ dated July 6, 1900. At the trial in the Superior Court before GraskiU, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,700; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is an action of tort under the St. of 1887, c. 270, § 1, cl. 3, for injuries received by the plaintiff on May 1, 1900, while in the defendant’s employ. The declaration contained five counts. The plaintiff at the trial waived the first and last counts, and the other three counts were submitted to the jury, and a verdict in favor of the plaintiff was returned on the second and fourth counts. The first of these charges negligence of a conductor in charge of a train in not warning the plaintiff of the approach of the train, whereby the plaintiff, being in the exercise of due care, was…
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