Lockwood v. American Express Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1912, of the superior court by Plummer, J. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff was injured in an accident which occurred at the station of the Boston & Maine Railroad at Claremont Junction, on the evening of September 5, 1910. One Ramsey was the station agent of the Boston & Maine Railroad and also the agent of the defendants at…
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Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1912, of the superior court by Plummer, J. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff was injured in an accident which occurred at the station of the Boston & Maine Railroad at Claremont Junction, on the evening of September 5, 1910. One Ramsey was the station agent of the Boston & Maine Railroad and also the agent of the defendants at that place. One Perkins, who was employed by the railroad, was, with the knowledge and assent of the defendants, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
It is unnecessary to again recount the evidence on the question of liability. A sufficiently adequate account of it is given in the statement of the case. From it, the jury were warranted in finding that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care at the time he received his injury; that the accident was caused by the negligence of Perkins while he was in the control and management of the defendants’ express truck — that he either negligently left it unchained on the station platform where the jar of approaching trains caused it to run back upon the track, or negligently backed it upon the…
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