Hackett v. Boston & Maine Railroad

These actions grow out of the accident that gave rise to the cases reported in Carbone v. Railroad, ante, 12. Although the present record includes none of the evidence upon the question of liability, it was admitted by both plaintiffs and defendant in brief and argument that upon the evidence that question was one for the jury. We shall consider later possible implications of the inference that reasonable men might have differed upon the question of liability and attend first to the principal contentions of the parties relative to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the verdicts. The…