Holland v. Boston & Maine Railroad

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. There was evidence tending to show that on December 6, 1930, the plaintiff’s intestate purchased of the defendant in Boston a ticket for transportation to Laconia, New Hampshire, and that he boarded a train in Boston at half past four in the afternoon of that day for that destination. The material evidence was that the train consisted of seven cars, five of which were passenger cars and none of which was a Pullman car. The passenger cars were described by the defendant in answer to…