Campion v. Boston & Maine Railroad

This is an action to recover damages for an alleged breach of a contract for permanent employment. The declaration is in three counts, the first and second in contract, the third in tort.

The salient facts set. forth in the bill of exceptions are that for several years before 1921 the plaintiff had been in the employment of the defendant; that during that year he was employed as a “spare” tower man; that later during the same year the defendant published a bulletin showing a “permanent” vacancy in the Wakefield Junction tower “second-trick,” which was “bid off” by the plaintiff; that in 1923…