Dunphy v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff was struck and knocked off the track by a passing train while working in the defendant’s employment on the loop at the Dudley Street terminal station of the defendant’s railway in Boston, and this is an action to recover for the injuries thereby received. The declaration contained five counts, the first being at common law and the others under the employers’ liability act. The second count was for injuries caused by negligence on the part of a person entrusted with and exercising superintendence, whose sole or principal duty was that of superintendence. The case was submitted to…