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

The plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as a car repairer. On December 19, 1907, with his foreman, John Leary, he was sent from the town of Eldon to the town of Brighton, Iowa, for the purpose of making repairs upon a certain car standing upon one of defendant’s tracks at that place. The nature of the repairs to be made was such as to require the plaintiff to crawl under the car and perform the work in. a recumbent position. The track at this place was a side or transfer track upon which the engines and trains of a connecting road, the Iowa Central Railway Company, were sometimes…