Anderson v. Erie Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The plaintiff, a brakeman in the employ of the defendant, fell and was injured while descending from a box car in the defendant’s yard at Weehawken. The cause of his fall was that the fastening of the grab-iron on top of the car gave away as he threw his weight upon it. The evidence tended to show two defects in the fastening—one, the use of a screw running less than an inch into the wooden roof, instead of a larger screw or a bolt running entirely through the roof and held by a nut underneath; the other, deterioration of the wood through…