Maher v. Boston & Albany Railroad

This is an action of tort to recover damages for the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate on February 24, 1935, while a passenger on a special train, consisting of ten cars and running from Boston to Becket for the purpose of returning to a “C. C. C.” camp, at Becket, young men who had enrolled in this camp and who had been on a three-day holiday over Washington’s Birthday. It could have been found that the train swayed or lurched as it reached the Natick station, causing the decedent, who was passing from one car to another, to lose his balance and to fall or go out…