LeBrun v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries suffered while in the employ of a receiver who was operating the defendant’s railroad. After the discharge of the receiver, and within the time granted to plaintiffs in general to commence suit, he brought this action against the only party then existent who in any way stood in the place of his employer. The defense is that the course of the receivership proceedings has been such as to deprive him of the usual right to maintain suit. Whatever the authority of courts of equity to shorten statutes of limitation or destroy causes of action may…