Ladd v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a teamster in the employ of one Robinson for injuries from a defective door of a car standing on a track in a freight yard of the defendant in that part of Boston called South Boston falling upon the plaintiff, when the plaintiff with one Harris had been sent with a team by Robinson to complete the unloading of hay from the car and was helping to open the door of the car for that purpose.
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Tort by a teamster in the employ of one Robinson for injuries from a defective door of a car standing on a track in a freight yard of the defendant in that part of Boston called South Boston falling upon the plaintiff, when the plaintiff with one Harris had been sent with a team by Robinson to complete the unloading of hay from the car and was helping to open the door of the car for that purpose. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated November 9, 1904. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Maynard, J. It appeared that the car in question belonged to the…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
In our opinion the jury might have found upon the evidence that upon the arrival of the car in Boston the defendant, instead of unloading the car and delivering the hay at its freight house, chose to make delivery from the car itself, and that this was the reason for the defendant’s keeping the car unloaded in one of its yards for six days before shifting it, at the request of Robinson, the purchaser of the hay and the employer of the plaintiff, into another place. If the jury found that this was the fact, then the defendant, by adopting the car as the store house from which Robinson was to…
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