LaPierre v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.

Plaintiff was a brakeman on a local freight train of the defendant, and was injured December 4, 1886, under the following circumstances: The train had reached Vicksburg, where it became necessary to unload some freight. The bottom of the car and the platform were on a level. The heavier freight was placed upon a truck, which the plaintiff wheeled over a gang plank to the platform. While engaged in this work, the end of the gang plank slipped from the car, and plaintiff, with his load, fell to the ground, a distance of about 3-^ feet, whereby he was injured, and, as he claims, permanently. He…