Frye v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff at Davenport, Iowa, which he claims to hare suffered, while in the employment of the defendant railroad company, as a railway switch foreman, at a time when the parties were engaging-in interstate commerce.

Plaintiff claims that at said time defendant, in violation of its duty imposed by an act of Congress, maintained upon the end of a tender attached to a switch engine, a coupling device which was imperfect, inoperative and dangerous to employes, in this: That said coupler was operated by means of a lever or rod…