Bancroft v. Boston & Maine Railroad

February 4, 1891, Bancroft received injuries whicli caused his death six days afterward, while riding on a switching-engine of the defendants’, which came in collision with a baker’s cart at the Walnut-street crossing in Nashua. He was about his ordinary work at the time. The defendants had no gate or flagman at the crossing, and freight cars were commonly kept standing, and at the time of the accident were standing, on a side track in such position as to hide the engine from the view of persons in the street and approaching the crossing from the west. This was the negligence complained of.

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