Brady v. Terminal Railroad Assn.

Owing to a defective handhold, or grab iron in railroad parlance, thé respondent fell from the top of a freight car to the ground in the yard of the Wabash Railway Company in Granite City, Illinois, and was injured on November 20, 1927. The car had been placed on an interchange track in the yard by the appellant Terminal Railroad Association for delivery to the Wabash and respondent first sued the latter for his injuries and recovered a judgment for $25,000- in the circuit court. But that judgment was reversed outright by Division One of this court in April, 1932. [Brady v. Wabash Ry. Co.,…