Walsh v. New York & New England Railroad

This is an action of tort to recover for a personal injury suffered by the plaintiff in Connecticut. The injury was caused by a broken draw-bar on a foreign freight car which did not belong to the defendant. Whether the defendant was using it, or, as we suppose, simply was forwarding it, is not stated. The plaintiff testified, and we assume, that it was customary to inspect freight trains at certain points named, and the evidence tended to show that the injury was due to the negligence of the inspectors at one of those points. In other words, the regulations of the defendant were sufficient,…