Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court February 28, 1906 (Cahill v. Boston & Maine Railroad)

Morton, J.

This is an action of tort for personal injuries

sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. The plaintiff was employed in and about the defendant’s freight house, and it was a part of his duty to open cars that were loaded, and to take a skid from the freight house, and place it so that it formed a bridge between the car and the freight house across which men took the