Canty v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

This is the plaintiff’s exception taken to the direction of a verdict for the defendant on the plaintiff’s opening in an action of tort to recover damages for the conscious suffering and death of the plaintiff’s intestate who was struck by a train shortly before five o’clock on an afternoon in January, 1954, as he was crossing the tracks in front of the Norfolk Downs station in the city of Quincy. The opening by permission of the court included certain photographs and plans.

Billings Road is a public way running westerly from Hancock Street to the easterly side of the location of the rail*39road…