Supreme Court of New Hampshire December 6, 1904 (Reynolds v. Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co.)

Walker, J.

On the afternoon of April 9, 1899, the plaintiff’s intestate, Reynolds, was killed in the defendant’s engine room. Reynolds was an assistant engineer whose duty it was to assist the principal engineer, Rankin, in operating several of the defendant’s engines. He had been at work in this capacity for about twenty days, and liad had considerable experience as a locomotive engineer.