Sankey v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as head brakeman on a freight train. On the morning of January 6, 1899, the train pulled in upon the side track of. the defendant’s railroad at the station of Earlham, and *40plaintiff, in the performance of his duty, undertook to couple the engine to certain cars standing upon such track. In so doing he stepped in front of the moving cars and-slipped, as it is claimed, upon a ridge of ice which had formed or accumulated inside of the rail, causing him to fall, and resulting in his feet being crushed beneath the wheels, whereby he was seriously and…