Schuman v. Bader & Co.

Elmer Schuman, in his lifetime, was a brakeman running on a C., B. & Q. freight train between Beards-town and Bio, Illinois. On the morning of November 20, 1917, while engaged in switching cars in passing the elevator of appellant in Table Grove he either fell or was knocked from a freight car and run over and injured so that he died the next day. It is claimed that he was knocked from the car by a spout extending out from the elevator towards the switch track. Appellee brought suit in the circuit court of Fulton county against Bader & Company, and recovered a judgment for $10,000 damages for…