Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad v. Dexter

The appellee filed his complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Vanderburgh county, alleging “that *412on the 12th day of February, 1861, and for a long time previous thereto, he was employed hy, and was acting for, said defendant, (appellant,) as a brakeman on board one of the trains running on said railroad, and that on said day, while in the line of his duty as such brakeman and employee, and while attending the rear brake of the train on which he was so employed, and in consequence of the negligence, carelessness and ineompetency of one James Wyant, who was employed at the time by said…