Railway Co. v. Wallace

Dioicinson, Sp. J.

This is an action by Waff-lace for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant’s servants. Wallace, being about twenty-one years of age, was then in the employ of defendant as front brakeman on a freight-train composed of about twenty-four cars, most of them empty, bound north. When the train reached' Thompson’s Station, it ivent on the side-track to permit another train to pass. On the side-track ivas one or more box-cars, and it ivas necessary to push them forward with the engine^to obtain room for the train.

There is testimony to…