Hines v. Little

The plaintiff was a railway employee who at the time of his injury was engaged in unloading piles from flat cars. *138The piles were held in place by wooden upright standards on each side of the car. These standards, opposite to one another, were bound together by wires stretched across the car. The unloading was effected by cutting the standards on one side of the car partly in two, and then cutting the wires, so that the weight of the piles forced against the partially cut standards would cause them to roll off upon the ground on that side of the car. At the time of the injury the plaintiff and…