Kiley v. Rutland Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1904, Rutland County, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1904, Rutland County, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The car 'that plaintiff was climbing was a Boston & Maine car, and the exceptions state that: ‘ ‘ The defendant gave evidence, which was uncontradicted, that this train of cars was inspected at North Bennington by its inspector, Howley, an inspector of long experience, who went up one side of the train and down the other side, and, among other things, examined the grabirons and ladders by looking them…
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This was an action on the case for. negligence. It appeared that the plaintiff was conductor of a local freight train of the defendant which left North Bennington for Rutland, June 3, 1903, in the afternoon. The train, as made up at North Bennington, a terminal point, consisted of some twenty-two or twenty-three cars, counting the caboose and a passenger coach which were at the rear, and the length of the train was not greatly varied, though at different stations cars were set out and others were taken in.' The plaintiff was injured at North Dorset, where a small amount of freight was…
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