New York, N. H. & H. R. v. O'Leary
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff below (now defendant in error) was a brakeman on the freight trains of the plaintiff in error (defendant below). The accident occurred in December, 1897, on the Providence Division, on the main line of the railroad of the plaintiff in error, between two- stations, each of which is within the limits of the city of Boston. It is a matter of common knowledge, of which the jury was entitled to avail itself, that on this portion of the line a very large amount of traffic is done; thus making reasonable diligence on the part of the plaintiff in error in caring…
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