Clare v. New York & New England Railroad

Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff’s intestate, William Morrissey, while in the defendant’s employ, which injuries resulted in his death. The declaration, which was under the employers’ liability^ act, St. 1887, c. 270, alleged, among other things, that the injuries were received “ by reason of a defect of which said intestate was ignorant in the condition of said defendant’s ways, works, and machinery, to wit, in a certain hand-car, the property of the defendant, the gearing on said car connected with crank and axle being worn, broken, and defective, and the caps and…