Young v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries in being run over by the defendants’ engine, September 24,1895, and losing the right leg. Trial', by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. The defendants seasonably moved for a nonsuit, that a verdict be directed in their favor,, and that the verdict against them be set aside. The motions were denied, subject to exceptions. The opinion sufficiently states the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, J.
As stated in his declaration, the negligence of the defendants by which the injury to the plaintiff is alleged to' have been caused consisted in furnishing a road or passenger engine with a pilot, instead of a shifting engine with a step and rail, for the doing of his work as a yard hand in the shifting and handling of cars and moving them about the defendants’ yard,, and that “ said engine was not reasonably safe for said work because it did not furnish the plaintiff with a proper step on which to step and stand in riding from point to point, as was usual in -doing the work, nor did it have…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hanley v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1882
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