Davis v. Hand

SYMES, District Judge.

The husband of the plaintiff was killed February 10, 1920, while in the employ of the United States Rail*74road Administration at Omaha, Neb., as the result of being crushed between a coal car and the side of a coal bin adjacent to the track on which the car was being moved. The railroad in question was the Missouri Pacific, a Delaware corporation under government operation. We will refer to the parties as they stood below.

At the time of the accident and for some time prior thereto the defendant maintained in its yards a coal bin consisting of an old abandoned coal car…