Martyn v. New York & Boston Despatch Express Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions of tort, for personal injuries. Trial in the Superior Court, before Cfaskill, J., who, at the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiffs, at the request of the defendants, directed the jury to return verdicts in the four cases for the defendants ; and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Each of the two plaintiffs has sued each of the two defendants to recover for an injury from being struck by a car on the track of the Old Colony Railroad Company, which was leased and used by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. Adjacent to the tracks of the Old Colony Railroad Company, between them and South Street, at a distance of nearly four hundred feet from .the southerly end of the passenger station in Boston, was a building occupied by the defendant express company under an arrangement with the railroad company. Along the northerly end of the building, occu- ■…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Wm. H. Pollett v. D. R.G.W.R. Co. and B.P. DelongUtah Supreme Court · 1933