Pulos v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

This is an action brought to recover damages for alleged personal injuries.

The plaintiff, who was an employe of the defendant, was engaged, with others, in loading steel rails on flat cars. While loading a rail it slipped off a car and struck and injured him. The accident occurred in Colorado. The plaintiff alleged that the rails were improperly and negligently piled on the car; that the defendant failed to provide braces on the side of the car; that the foreman of the defendant in charge of the work negligently ordered the plaintiff and others to lift a crooked rail from a ditch and throw it…