Coombs v. Fitchburg Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action of tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The defendant is a railroad corporation, and the place where the accident occurred was at a switch in its freight-yard in Boston. From the nature of its business it requires numerous and extensive tracks, which are connected with one another, and which are operated at the places of junction by switches. In making up its trains and transacting its business, cars are constantly shifted from one track to another in its freight-yard. This is done by an engine called a switcher. In December, 1886, the plaintiff entered the defendant’s employment as a brakeman on the switcher; meaning, we presume,…
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