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

•WILBUR, J.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for seven thousand five hundred dollars for injuries received by him while acting as a fireman upon a train operated from ■Searchlight to Goffs upon the railroad of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The injuries were caused by the giving away of an abutment of a bridge upon which the engine occupied by the plaintiff was crossing. The line was a branch line fifty-two miles in length and the train operated by the plaintiff and his eoemployees left Goffs for Searchlight in the morning, crossing the bridge in question about three miles after…