Ladd v. Brockton Street Railway Co.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while engaged in learning the duties of a conductor upon the defendant’s road in anticipation of being so employed by it. The declaration is in three coupts: the first for negligently placing and maintaining a post in its *455roadbed so near the rail, that the plaintiff while walking on the running board of a car in the discharge of his duty came in contact with it and received the injuries complained of; the second under St. 1887, c. 270, for a defect in the ways and works which arose from or had not been discovered in…