Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. McMurray

The facts in this case are simple, and lie within a narrow compass, but the questions of law are important and difficult.

Frankfort is a way station on the line of appellant’s road, distant many miles from the principal offices of the company and from the residences of its chief officers. At this station, at one o’clock of the morning of July 2d, 1881, Thomas Coon, a brakeman in the service of the appellant, had his foot crushed between the wheel of a car of the train on which he was employed as a brakeman, and a rail of the track. The injury was such as demanded immediate surgical attention.…