Meador v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This was an action by the ' appellant against the appellee for damages for personal injuries, stated in a complaint in one paragraph.

The allegations therein summarized are as follows: The appellant was an employe of the defendant, and a part of his duty was to light and extinguish lamps at a street crossing, the lamps being put on top of a post eight or eight and one-half feet high, requiring a ladder to be used by appellant to perform that duty; that appellee furnished the ladder; that it got out of repair; that Christian Jacobson was the agent of appellee, who was entrusted with the duty of…