Gates v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co.

Appellant was in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company as a conductor upon one of its freight trains. By reason of an injury received, which he attributes to the negligence of said company, he instituted this action to recover damages.

It is alleged substantially in the complaint that the defendant negligently permitted and suffered a certain metal rod, placed near the coupling of a freight car, which was handled by appellant in the line of his duty, to project out to such a distance that, when the car was coupled to another car, the rod came into contact with timbers…