Pollard v. Maine Central Railroad

The plaintiff claimed damages for a personal injury, alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligent act of the defendant’s yard-master in breaking off one of the car stakes supporting a load of lumber and causing several sticks of heavy joists to fall upon him from the top of the load.

At the trial of the action, in Somerset county, in March, 1892, a verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff for twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars. The case was carried to the law court on exceptions and motion for a new trial, and entered at the May term, 1892.

The arguments of counsel were…