Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 16, 1920 (Howard v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad)

Carroll, J.

The plaintiff, a flagman on one of the defendant’s freight trains, about two o’clock on the morning of April 27, 1917, while in the performance of his duty of protecting the train, was injured by reason of its backing down upon him. The train left Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was on its way to Northampton in *373this Commonwealth.