Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Slattery

This action was brought by M. Frank Slattery against the Railroad Company to recover for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision between a switch-engine upon which he was riding, and a push-car, in the yards of the Railroad Company at Wichita. Pie was employed by the Company as a yard-clerk, and his duties consisted mostly of ascertaining the numbers of freight-cars upon their arrival in the yards, making a list op them and marking their points of destination. He received a list of the cars in each train from the conductors of the trains as they arrived, and from such list…