Smith v. Potter

Plaintiff, who was a brakeman on the railroad of which defendant was receiver, sues for an injury which he received by having an arm crushed while coupling cars. The accident is shown to have happened while plaintiff was attempting to couple two cars which had been brought loaded to Monroe by another road, and the occasion of it is said to have been the loosening and leaning down of the dead-woods of one car which was rather lower than the other, whereby as the two came together the dead-woods of the lower car went partially under those of the higher one and caught plaintiff’s arm. The…