Kennedy v. Boston & Maine Railroad

These are two actions of “contract or tort” in each of which the plaintiffs, all employees of the defendant, seek to recover the value of their clothes and the tools of their craft, which were contained in a reconverted passenger car provided by the defendant for the use of the plaintiffs, which car and the contents thereof, including the plaintiffs’ clothes and tools, were destroyed by fire on May 24, 1943.

In each cáse the plaintiffs’ déclaration, as amended, consists of five counts, four of which allege a breach of a contract of bailment and one of which alleges a breach of a contract of…