C., N. O. & T. P. Railway Co. v. Delaney

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

Appellee Delaney was a member of a section gang engaged in maintaining an interstate railroad track through Grant county, and is admitted to have been engaged in interstate commerce. On the morning of his injury he with six other men* including the foreman, rode a lever hand car on their way to work. After going1 some distance they came upon a work train, including a steam shovel or ditcher, standing upon the track on which the- hand car was traveling. When near the work train the- foreman put -the- brake on and stopped the hand car. He…