Carbone v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.

In No. 73334, the plaintiff Carbone sues the defendant for damage to his trailer truck, which collided with the defendant’s switch engine on a crossing. In No. 73348, the plaintiff Casino sues for personal injuries which he, as the operator of the trailer truck, sustained in the same collision. In paragraph 1 of each complaint it is alleged that the defendant’s tracks “cross a road . . . which leads to the unloading platform’’ of a paper mill in Montville.

The defendant moved that paragraph 1 of the complaints be made more specific by stating whether the “road” alleged to be crossed by the…