E. L. Bruce Company v. Leake

The appellee brought suit in the Nevada Circuit Court against the appellant, alleging that he was employed by appellant as brakeman upon its log-train, which operated from the log camp in the woods to the town of Kilgore, a distance of about twelve miles. That on the 12th day of January, 1927, the train was returning from the log camp with a load of logs, when, on account of the rough and uneven condition of the track, the train, in rounding a curve, became uncoupled or broke in-two. That it was appellee’s duty as brakeman to make the coupling, and he got down from the car, adjusted the…