Sweany v. Wabash Railway Co.

SHAIN, P. J.-

-In this action the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, seeks to recover damages against the defendant for injuries that plaintiff alleges he received while in the employ of defendant, as a section laborer.

The injuries of which complained are alleged as resulting from fumes which came from the railway ties that had been treated with creosote. It appears that the defendant, a railway company, shipped the creosoted ties in a box car and the ties are alleged as for use on the main line of the defendant railway company, over which trains were operated through Missouri, into and…