Leonard v. Boston & Albany Railroad

The plaintiff was stealing a ride between two cars of one of the defendant’s freight trains. He was discovered by a brakeman and told to get off, but he kept his position. As the train was entering the station at Westborough it became the duty of another brakeman to uncouple the cars and divide the train at the point where the plaintiff was standing, *319and he came down the ladder at the end of one of the cars for that purpose, and in a rough way told the plaintiff to get off. The plaintiff moved his position and held to the ladder at the end of one of the cars, having one foot on a rod, and one…