Farwell v. Boston & Worcester Railroad Corp.
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farwell-v-boston-worcester-railroad-corp-323-12034697
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Farwell v. Boston & Worcester Railroad Corp.
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Farwell v. Boston & Worcester R.R. Corp, 45 Mass. 49, Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw used a contract rationale to prevent a railroad worker from recovering from his employer, Boston and Worcester Railroad, for an injury due to the negligence of a switch tender employed by the same company, even though a third party or passenger would likely have been able to recover for the same injury. Shaw believed that the injured worker was in an equally good—if not better—position to oversee the wo
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