Rifley v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Tarbox, J., denying a motion for a new trial, after a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $2,000.
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as a switchman, and was at work in its yards at Minneapolis. The switch engine was pushing several cars ahead of it on the lead track, for the purpose of coupling the car furthest ahead to another car standing on one of the connecting switch tracks. The train was not moving as fast as a man could walk, and plaintiff walked along on the track just in front of said moving car furthest ahead, for the purpose of adjusting the knuckle of the Janney coupler on the front end of that car, so that it could be coupled to said standing car; and while he was thus…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lawson v. TruesdaleSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
3Cited by7 opinions
- Sankey v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1902
- Gibson v. Iowa Central Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
- Rogers v. DavisIdaho Supreme Court · 1924
- Turrittin v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Brannock v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910
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