Hale v. Grand Trunk Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
ActioN on the case for negligence. Heard on an agreed statement, June Term, 1887, Veazey,'J., presiding. Judgment pro forma for the plaintiff, and cause passed to the Supreme Court under section 1890, R. L. It was agreed: “ On November 2, 1885, the defendants were lessees and managers of said railway between Portland, Maine, and Canada line, and had maintained a passenger station at Berlin Falls, New Hampshire, about thirty years.
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ActioN on the case for negligence. Heard on an agreed statement, June Term, 1887, Veazey,'J., presiding. Judgment pro forma for the plaintiff, and cause passed to the Supreme Court under section 1890, R. L. It was agreed: “ On November 2, 1885, the defendants were lessees and managers of said railway between Portland, Maine, and Canada line, and had maintained a passenger station at Berlin Falls, New Hampshire, about thirty years. “ The defendants carried the United States mail with route or mail agents on their passenger trains between said Portland and Canada line, according to the laws of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court wag delivered by
Ross, J.
By the agreed case, November 2, 1885, the defendant was operating a railway from Portland, Maine, to Canada line, and had a station at Berlin Falls, New Hampshire. As such, it was carrying the mail on its mail trains for the United States government according to the laws of the United States, and pursuant to the conditions and regulations imposed by the post office department, at a fixed compensation. The plaintiff on that evening in attempting to go to its mail train while stopping at the station at Berlin Falls, for the purpose of mailing…
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