Eckles v. Des Moines Casket Co.

The plaintiff alleged that a car of coal had been placed alongside the appellant’s engine room, and that he was ordered to unload it, though such work was not in the line of his employment; that, in attempting to board the car for the purpose of unloading it, one of the iron handholds on the car gave way, and he was violently precipitated to the ground and injured. . It was alleged that the defendant was negligent in not providng the plaintiff a safe place to work and in ordering him upon said car. In its answer the defendant alleged that the car in question was the. property of the Chicago…