Lehigh Valley R. v. Scanlon

A railway man, experienced both in his work generally and as to the locality of performance, was injured because, while descending from a car at rest, he projected the posterior portion of his body into the path of a moving engine tender on the next parallel track. The descent aforesaid was necessary, because the still train to which the car belonged had not been “split” at the point where the workman wished to cross the track. This failure to keep open a path across said track was in contravention of the “sign” mentioned in the court’s opinion. In addition to the quoted words, that sign…