Handelun v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern R'y Co.

The train on which plaintiff was employed was used for hauling sand and gravel from a pit, and distributing the same along the main track of defendant’s road for ballast. At the time of the accident, the .train was at the pit, being-loaded. A quantity of sand had fallen upon the track in front of the engine, and plaintiff and one or two other employes were directed by the foreman to remove it. Before they had finished the work of removing it, however, the engine was put in motion, and started forward. On one side of the track there was a bank of sand about eight feet high. The space between…