White v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

John Humpall had been in defendant’s employment twenty-one years. At the time of receiving the injury complained of, he was engaged as clinker pitman and in handling coal for engines. The clinker pit was about twenty feet long, three and one-half feet deep, below the top of the rails, four feet wide at the top, and three feet at the bottom. At the north side of the track and two or three feet therefrom was a coal shed some sixty-eight feet long with an elevator platform eighteen feet in length at the east end which was about ten feet west of the pit. East of the pit was the turntable.…