Baker v. Swift

Jackson, C.

The action is one to recover damages for a personal injury which the plaintiff claims to have sustained on account of the negligence of the defendant. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the jury ivere instructed to return a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.

The only testimony in the record is that of the plaintiff himself, and it tends to prove that the plaintiff ivas employed in the liog-killing department of the defendant, A\rho is engaged in operating a packing house in South Omaha. He was employed in-the same room with some 40 or 50 other workmen, all…