Brunell v. Southern Pacific Co.

delivered the opinion of the court.'

This is an action to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence. The plaintiff, an experienced section hand, about twenty-two years old, was at the time of the accident employed with other laborers in surfacing the track on a spur of defendant’s railroad leading from Sheridan easterly to Sheridan Junctioji, and while so engaged a hand car coming from Sheridan, propelled by bridge carpenters, suddenly came up behind plaintiff, who, with his fellow laborers, jumped from the track; but one of them, in his hurry to…