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

ATWOOD, P. J

-This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $10,000 on aeount of injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while in the employ of defendant. Plaintiff was one of six section men engaged in unloading ties from the north door of a box car standing on one of defendant’s east-and-west side tracks in the city of St. Louis. The ties were of green oak,- about eight feet long and weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds each. Three of plaintiff’s crew worked inside the car and two, besides the foreman, were on the outside. In unloading the ties the…