Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 2, 1919 (Casey v. Boston & Maine Railroad)

Braley, J.

The plaintiff’s intestate was employed by the defendant as a divisional or signal foreman of its block signal system. It was his duty within the territory assigned to him to supervise the maintenance of signals, for the proper operation of which he was personally responsible, and the jury upon conflicting evidence as to his movements could find, that while on the ground inspecting a