Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. W. Co. v. McCormick
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Laporte Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
McCormick sued the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company for damages resulting from an injury received by him at South Bend, on the 4th day of *442October, 1876, while engaged as a brakeman on the appellant’s railroad. He alleged in his complaint that, while engaged in coupling cars, he was, without fault on his part, caught in a dangerously constructed frog, which, without proper safeguards and necessary protection, was negligently allowed to remain in the track of the company’s road at South Bend; that the appellant had carelessly and negligently constructed and suffered said frog to…
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