Jameson v. Payne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment against a railway company for injuries sustained by a switchman in its service.

While this switchman, Jesse R. Jameson, was climbing up the end of a freight car to set a brake on it, a number of other cars which had been “kicked” too hard crashed into this car and caused him to lose his hold, knocked him against the end of the next car and he *671fell to the ground between them. His foot was caught and crushed, and he was dragged some distance, and seriously and permanently injured. At the time of his injury the…