Aldrich v. Springfield, Athol & North Eastern Railroad

This is an action of tort by the administratrix of Nelson Aldrich, to recover for injuries sustained by him, while employed as a brakeman upon a passenger train on the defendant’s railroad, by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant in running that train by a flying switch over a side track, and in leaving a freight train on that track.

At the trial in the Superior Court, certain rules of the defendant’s superintendent were introduced in evidence, by one of which “ all passenger trains must come to a full stop at all stations before detaching any part of the train.” No exception was…