Dolphin v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a freight brakeman for injuries received while at work in the freight yard of the defendant at Taunton. Writ dated February 4, 1898. In the Superior Court Sherman, J. ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The accident for which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages occurred on March 12, 1897, at about ten o’clock in the evening, in the defendant’s freight yard in Taunton. The plaintiff had been in the employ of the Boston and Maine Railroad for a year as a freight brakeman, and had *510been in the employ of the defendant for about two weeks before the accident, working at night in the same freight yard. This yard was situated just south of Danforth Street. On the westerly side there were two main lines running substantially north and south, and twelve side tracks radiating from them towards the…
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