Langenfeld v. Union Pacific Railroad

This is an action to recover for personal injuries. The plaintiff at the time of the accident was in the service of the defendant as a cook upon a dining car running from Omaha to the Pacific coast. About 4 o’clock of the afternoon of the day on which the accident occurred, a fellow employee, named Roberts, was sent to his house in Omaha to request him to assist in stocking a dining car for the road. The shortest way to the car was through the yards of the railroad company. Roberts and the plaintiff entered the yards near Seventeenth street, and from thence started to walk eastward between…