Gray v. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries sustained by falling from a staging while he was in the employ of one John Donahue who, under contract with the defendant, was unloading coal from a barge at its wharf to its coal pocket, in East Boston. At the close of the evidence the trial judge denied the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, the jury found for the plaintiff, and the case is before us on the defendant’s exceptions.

The jury were warranted in finding that, on the day of the accident, the plaintiff’s work required him to stand upon the movable outrigger of a…