Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Ryan

The appellee was a brakeman, employed by the appellant, and November 25, 1892, at about 7:15 p. m. attempted to go down from the top of a freight car of a train that was being backed by an engine. The car was next to the engine, and he had gone upon it from the engine some fifteen minutes before.

In attempting to go down, for the purpose of uncoupling the engine when the train should be stopped, as it was about to be, he fell by reason, as he alleges, of a “ hand hold ” being so bent down that he could not take hold of it. This “ hand hold” was, as we understand, the continuation of a ladder…