Hall v. Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co.

This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while acting as conductor upon one of the defendant’s cars. The first count is at common law, on the ground of a failure to provide a safe place for the plaintiff, specifying the building of the track too near to a maple tree against which the plaintiff struck. The second count is under the employers’ liability act, alleging a defect in the defendant’s ways and works, and specifying the same facts. The third, also under the act, goes on the negligence of a superintendent. At the trial the judge directed a verdict for the…