Dade v. Boston & Maine Railroad

At the time of his death the plaintiff’s intestate was employed by the defendant as assistant to the track supervisor for the district extending from Exeter in this state to Rigby in the state of Maine. When the accident occurred he was operating a gasoline-driven section car and proceeding easterly on the defendant’s track toward North Berwick, Maine. He was seated at the left rear of the car facing east. His sole companion, a rail inspector, Stewart Cheney by name, “was seated on the right forward corner of the car” and “was looking upward and back northerly.”

The track at Indigo Hill…