Pratt v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

[After the above statement of the case.] The defendant seeks to support the ruling on two grounds : first, that there was no evidence of due care on the part of the plaintiff, and second, that the cause of the accident was on the evidence a matter of conjecture and no negligence on the defendant’s part was shown.

But we are of opinion that these contentions cannot be maintained.

1. The place in question was not a railroad yard where ears were continually going back and forth. It was a single spur track, leading off the main line, devoted to loading freight cars, at what appears to be a small…