Dale v. Colfax Consolidated Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Court.— Hon. Byron W. Preston, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, while in defendant’s employ as a brakeman on a coal train, in being run over by the wheels of one of the cars. There was a verdict for plaintiff and judgment thereon, from which judgment the defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the Court
McClain, C. J.—
The train operated by defendant, on which plaintiff was employed as brakeman at the time he received the injuries, consisted of five cars; the two cars next to the engine being box cars, and the others coal cars. The train was being- used at the time for transporting employes to the mine of the defendant company, and on the car farthest from the engine there were ten or fifteen men not having any connection with the operation of the train. At the immediate time of the accident which resulted in plaintiff’s injury the train was being backed slowly eastward at the rate of from…
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- Gregory v. Wabash RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
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