Trcka v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cedar Rapids Superior Court. — Hon. T. M. Gtberson, Judge. Action at law to recover for personal injuries alleged to bave been caused by negligence on the part of the defendant. At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff, Hie court sustained a motion of the defendant for a verdict, and judgment for costs was rendered in its favor. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
1 In April, 1894, the plaintiff was ah employe of the defendant, engaged in operating a bolt machine in its shops, at Cedar Rapids. Shafts, on which were fixed pulleys, for u, 3 in running various machines, were fastened near the ceiling of the room in which the plaintiff was at work. A machinist, named Wilde, in the employment of the defendant, was putting up a counter-shaft near the place where the plaintiff was operating his machine, and, to accomplish that -purpose, used two trestles, on which were placed two planks. Each trestle was about four feet wide, and seven feet long at the base,…
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