Duncan v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

F. E. Duncan was an employee on defendant’s road, was twenty-eight years of age, and earning $4 a day. On the night of March 9, 1908, he was head brakeman on a freight train coming east through the station of Noel, Okla., where on the south side of the track are an elevator and switch, and on the north side a switch stand, and about seventy-eight feet east *114of the latter a bridge about fifty-six feet in length over a ravine. On the north side this bridge was provided with a runway and hand rail, so that brakemen could cross in safety. On the…