Van Brunt v. Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad

William H. Yan Brunt, the plaintiff’s intestate, while in the employ of the defendant as brakeman on a freight train, ivas crushed between defendant’s caboose car No. 86 and caboose car No. 88, on January 1, 1888, at Marshall, and died from his injuries on the *531next day, about five hours after the injury. The administrator brought suit to recover damages on account of such injury and death. The court below directed a verdict for the defendant. The court based its direction, among other things, upon the ground that no damages were shown.

The declaration was in four counts, in each of which it…