Bridges v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered judgment for five thousand dollars for personal injuries received by him while working for defendant at its railroad yards at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and defendant has appealed. When injured plaintiff was assisting in unloading some endgates from a coal car, and one of such endgates fell against him breaking his leg near the ankle. These endgates were some eight or nine feet long, four or five feet.wide and two inches or more thick. They weighed six .to seven hundred pounds. We take it that the sides of the coal car were four or five feet high and the endgates which…