High v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad

Plaintiff was the night car-inspector of defendant at Milan, Missouri, and this is a suit for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him while in the performance of his duty to couple an engine to a baggage car of a train due to leave Milan for Kansas City. Every morning (except Sunday) passenger trains left Milan for Kansas City and Quincy. At 3:30 a. m. on the 27tli of November, 1923, engines 475 and 469 were coupled together near the roundhouse in Milan by the hostler and hostler helper. They were» “steamed up,” ready to pull these trains out of Milan. The hostler, acting as…