Peters v. Michigan Central Railroad

The plaintiff, being then 21 years old and employed by the defendant, was injured July 24, 1906. He was one of a number of men employed as laborer in constructing a branch line of road. The foreman of these men, acting by direction of his superior, took them, or some of them, including the plaintiff, to a place where certain cars of defendant had been derailed and wrecked on the main line of defendant’s road, to act as a wrecking crew. A flat car, which carried a derrick operated by hand, was a part of the wrecking outfit. Sent *218upon this car to assist in operating the derrick, plaintiff…