Smith v. . R. R.

There was evidence on the part of plaintiff tending to show that in January, 1906, the intestate, engaged in his employment as one of a switching crew, was run over and fatally injured on the yard of defendant company, from which injury he soon thereafter died. D. H. Plott, a witness for plaintiff, among other things, testified in substance that on the night of the occurrence witness was conductor in charge of the switching crew of which deceased was then a member, and intestate, in the line of his employment, had thrown the switch and then took his position in front' of the slowly moving…