Hastings Lumber Co. v. Garland

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This is a statutory suit, brought in the district of New Hampshire, in behalf of the administrator of the estate of Harry Belmont, who was a locomotive engineer in the employment of the Hastings Dumber Company, the defendant below. It was tried to a jury, and the verdict was for the plaintiff below, and the defendant below sued out this writ of error. It will be convenient in this opinion to describe the plaintiff in error as the defendant, and the defendant in error as the plaintiff. The declaration alleges substantially that it was the duty of the defendant to furnish…