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

Plaintiff claims that while a passenger on one of defendant’s trains from Omaha, Neb., to Colfax, Iowa, and just before the train reached the station at Colfax, supposing that the station had been reached, he was attempting to alight and that while engaged in that act the train started with a jerk, throwing him under the wheels of a coach, resulting in the crushing of the left foot and the final amputation of the limb at a point six or eight inches below the knee. Defendant denied all allegations of negligence, and, in effect, averred that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. Hpon…