Davis v. Joslin Manufacturing Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence, brought by the plaintiff as the father and next of kin of his infant son, Emery A. Davis, on whose estate no administrator has been appointed, to recover damages under the statute for the death of said infant son by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant corporation.

The negligence complained of in the declaration is the failure of the defendant corporation to maintain suitable railings and safeguards at and near a bridge over its trench, across which there was a path leading from its tenement houses to the public highway,…