Tabler v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

The plaintiff, a bridge carpenter, in the employ of the defendant, brought this suit to recover damages for injuries received under the following circumstances : A passenger train was wrecked at Bevier .station, at two o’clock, on the morning of the first of March, 1881. The defendant caused a wrecking and relief train to be made up at Brookfield, a station west of Bevier; this train, composed of an engine, flat cars, a •derrick car, caboose, and a passenger coach, all coupled together in the order named, started for the scene of the •wreck at four o’ clock of the same morning, with physi*83cians…