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HURD v. BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD

No. 4504.

100 N.H. 404 (1957)

CORA P. HURD & a. v. BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided January 31, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sleeper & Mullavey (Mr. Mullavey orally), for the plaintiffs.

Burns, Calderwood & Bryant (Mr. Bryant orally), for the defendant.

LAMPRON, J.

R. L., c. 300, s. 1 (now RSA 380:1) provides that "the proprietors of every railroad shall be liable for all damages to any person or property by fire or steam from any locomotive or other engine upon their road." It was decided in Beard v. Railroad, supra, 472, that the liability imposed thereby on the railroad "was intended to apply only to those persons or properties for which the operation of the railroad could foreseeably...

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