Whipple v. N.Y., N.H. H.R.R. Co.

This is an action of the case for negligence. The accident which caused the injuries to the plaintiff occurred about two o'clock in the afternoon, on December 22, 1894, in the defendant's freight yard in Providence, where the plaintiff had been employed as a brakeman in the making up of freight trains for two or three months previously. Just prior to the accident the switching engine, with the plaintiff riding on the footboard, on the rear of the tender, had backed down in a southerly direction on a side track to a point opposite the freight house, for the purpose of taking on some cars…