Krasnicki v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 22, 1915, at a station of the defendant at Winchendon, by reason of being forcibly ejected negligently and wilfully from a car in a train of the defendant which the plaintiff had entered by the defendant’s invitation.' Writ dated November 24,1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson, J. The evidence and the course of the trial are described in the opinion.
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Tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on February 22, 1915, at a station of the defendant at Winchendon, by reason of being forcibly ejected negligently and wilfully from a car in a train of the defendant which the plaintiff had entered by the defendant’s invitation.' Writ dated November 24,1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson, J. The evidence and the course of the trial are described in the opinion. The judge refused to order a verdict for the defendant and submitted the case to the jury in the manner there described. The jury returned a verdict for…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff, with two friends who were to take the train for Boston, entered one of the defendant’s cars at the Winchendon station. There was testimony that, as he was leaving the car and was standing on the platform or step after the train had begun to move backward, he was pushed off the car and seriously injured. The plaintiff and his friends not only referred to the aggressor as the “station agent,” but in the court room they positively identified him as Mr. Hall, who was the station master. There was no evidence connecting any other employee of the defendant with the accident, although…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pomeroy v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898