Gencarelle v. N. Y., N. H. & H. Ry. Co.

This is assumpsit to recover for services rendered in boarding, nursing, and taking care of one Teresa Agulino, who was seriously injured while alighting from a passenger train on defendant’s railroad at Westerly, R. I.

The action is based on an alleged contract made with the defendant corporation by one Santo Turanno, who, it is alleged, was authorized by Elisha E. Potter, the assistant claim agent of the defendant, to do and have done whatever was necessary in taking care of and nursing the injured woman.

At the trial of the case in the Common Pleas Division the plaintiff was nonsuited, and…