Roepcke v. Michigan Central Railroad

Plaintiff was a member of one of defendant’s section gangs at Avork in the vicinity of Dexter. The defendant was engaged in the construction of a bridge and culvert, and for that purpose had hauled upon flat cars oak timbers from 30 to 40 feet long, and from 12 to 15 inches in diameter. Plaintiff was 19 years of age, and possessed of average intelligence. He had worked for the defendant two weeks in the fall of 1889, and íavo Aveeks in the spring of 1890, previous to the accident, which occurred on April 10. Aside from this, most of his'time appears to have been spent upon a farm. His Avork,…