Steffe v. Old Colony Railroad

The defendant demurred to the declaration, and in support of the demurrer contends that the first count is defective because it does not state in what the alleged negligence of the brakeman Thompson consisted, or in what way his alleged incompetence caused the injury complained of. The allegations on this point, in substance, are that by reason of the negligence *263and incompetence of Thompson, then in the defendant’s employ as a brakeman, and having charge or control of a train at that time moving, etc., the plaintiff was caught between two moving trains, and was hurt. The above ground of…