Parker v. Union Station Ass'n

Plaintiff’s intestate was run over and injured by defendant’s switch engine while in the employ of the Union Station Association, and engaged in switching *73cars. She sued to recover damages after his death, and, a verdict in favor of the defendant being rendered by direction of the circuit judge, she has appealed.

We understand that the learned circuit judge was of the opinion that upon this record the proximate cause of the accident was a matter of conjecture merely. Plaintiff’s theory was that, while engaged in performing his duties as switchman, decedent’s foot was caught in a guard rail by…