Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1860

Seaver v. Boston & Maine Railroad

Seaver v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 15, 1860
80 Mass. 466

Counsel

N W. Harmon 8f J. W. Perry, for the plaintiff., T. Wentworth, for the defendants,

Seaver v. Boston & Maine Railroad

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.*

If a railroad corporation are bound to use reasonable care, in furnishing a suitable safe engine and car, in favor of a person employed by them, which is to some extent a new question, not yet distinctly adjudicated, of which we give no opinion, the instructions to the jury in this case were sufficiently favorable to the plaintiff.

The question put to the witness so far involved the application of forces as to be properly within the range of testimony of experts. Judgment on the verdict.

Hoar, J. did not sit in this case.

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