Crotty v. Chicago Great Western Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This case is before us a second time. It is an action by an administratrix to recover damages for the death of her intestate, James J. Crotty, which occurred while he, as a brakeman in the defendant’s service, was participating in staking a loaded coal car over a switch connecting two parallel tracks, a process in which the force of a freight train moving backward on one track was applied to the coal car on the other track by means of a post held between the rear car of the train, a caboose, and the coal car. When the staking began, Crotty attempted to hold the…
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