Brown v. Swift & Co.

Plaintiff was injured when be was attempting to haul a truckload of meat from a freight car to the sweet-pickle cellar of defendant’s packing-house at South Omaha. In an action for personal injuries thus sustained, he recovered a judgment for $2,725, and defendant has appealed. Plaintiff died after the case was brought here, and it has been revived in the name of the administrator of his estate.

Plaintiff entered defendant’s employ September 15, 1904, and the injury occurred December 3, 1904. He worked in the smoked-meat department until about December 1st, and thereafter handled a truck in…