Gannon v. New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on the defendant’s train. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while a passenger upon a train of the defendant. The ease, as stated by the plaintiff’s witnesses, was as follows. A lamp opposite where the plaintiff was sitting blazed up, a bystander and then the conductor tried to fan out the flame with their hats, but did not succeed, and the plaintiff changed her seat to the other end of the car, next to the baggage car. Then a brabeman tried to smother the flame with oily waste, which caught fire and blazed, part of it dropping on the floor, the flames came out underneath the lamp, the…
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