Carolan v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries, brought by an employee twenty years old against his employer, for injuries received on March 5, 1945, at the North Station in Boston. The defendant, as an express company subject to the interstate commerce act, was excepted from the workmen’s compensation act. St. 1943, c. 529, § 3. Price v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. 322 Mass. 476. See now St. 1945, c. 369. The declaration alleges that “by reason of some defect in the condition of the ways, *478works and machinery” of the defendant the plaintiff was injured “by reason of the fact that a…