Johnston v. Canadian Pac. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
At Law. Action by William Johnston against the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to recover for personal injuries.
1Opinion of the Court
Wiikelf.R, District Judge.
The plaintiff has declared in two counts, —one for being thrown from the rear car of a freight train of the defendant, where he had been placed as a brakeman, under the caboose which had been detached and was following slowly, by the, to him, unexpected starting forward of the train ordered by the conductor rejirosent-ing the defendant; the other for being so thrown through incompetency and unfitness of the conductor, known before to the defendant. To these counts the defendant has pleaded the statute of limitations of the province of Quebec, in which the cause of…
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