Piper v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence causing personal injury, previously reported ante, 228. The plaintiff having died since the former trial, the action is prosecuted by his administratrix. In preparation for further trial, both parties requested sundry rulings of law and each excepted to some which were made.
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Case, for negligence causing personal injury, previously reported ante, 228. The plaintiff having died since the former trial, the action is prosecuted by his administratrix. In preparation for further trial, both parties requested sundry rulings of law and each excepted to some which were made. The presiding justice (Pike, J.) deemed it advisable that the questions raised should be settled before a trial, and transferred the case from the October term, 1909, of the superior court, at the request of the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
In April, 1909, it was decided in this case that the plaintiff’s agreement to waive any claim for damages from an injury resulting from the negligence of the defendants’ servants, as the condition upon which he was permitted to work for the Express Company in the defendants’ train-shed, was valid and an answer to a suit founded on such negligence.
1. The case being again in this court upon exceptions to certain rulings in the superior court made in anticipation of further trial, it appearing that the written contract offered as evidence in support of the brief statement “ provided for the…
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