Illinois Central Railroad v. McCowan

Mr. Presiding Justice Gary

delivered the opinion oe the Court.

Under a peculiar stipulation, which there is no need to copy, this case was tried without a jury. The only claim of the appellee on the trial and here, ivas and is, that he was rightfully at work upon the north end of a car standing still, and that the appellant bumped from the north another car against the one he was upon, and as a result he fell off to the north, and was run over by the car that had come against the one upon which he was.

This version stands only upon his own wholly uncorroborated testimony, contradicted by the…