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

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is an action to recover for personal injuries-brought by plaintiff against defendant under the federal employers’' liability act. Plaintiff was employed in defendant’s yards in Kansas City, and at the time of his injury was unloading truck sides from a *341shipment that had come into the yards from Davenport, Iowa. The car from which the truck sides were being unloaded had arrived in the defendant’s yards a few days prior to the date of unloading, and on account of the crowded condition of the track where the truck sides were to be…