Taylor v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiff was tail-end brakeman on the night shifting crew in the defendant’s freight yard at Somerville, and was injured by having his right arm caught between two cars which came together while he was trying to cut off one of them from the rear of the train. The bumper, draw bar and end sills were gone from the car, which allowed it and the next car to come together. This action was brought for the injuries thus received. At the close of the evidence the judge, at the defendant’s request, directed a verdict for the defendant, and the case is here on exceptions by the plaintiff to this…