Sheehan v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s intestate, Patrick MeGann, was in the employ of the defendant company as the conductor on a car running through the East Boston tunnel. At the Boston terminus there is a single track, called a “dead end.” On the morning of the accident the intestate’s car was the last of three to come into this terminus, and necessarily would be the first to go out; and it was the duty of the motorman and conductor to change ends for the return trip.' While MeGann was adjusting the fender on the rear end of his car as reversed, the car behind him moved ahead and crushed him against his own…