Christie v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Six men, all employees of the defendant, were riding in the truck. Their foreman testified that it was his duty to investigate all accidents in which the members of his crew were involved and to make a report to the defendant; that he made an investigation of this particular accident immediately and found that the wheel tracks of the truck were on the right-hand side of the road. A further investigation was made a few days later by a supervising foreman, who took photographs and drew a plan of the road and surrounding territory.

In the course of his argument to the jury counsel for the…