Moore v. Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Railroad

The plaintiff entered the way-car of the defendant, which, with three or four car loads of stone to whiteh it was attached, stood in the defendant’s yard, at a station called “Reese,” while the train crew was, to his knowledge, engaged in shifting cars, by shunting. As he came to a seat near the end of the car, he set his baggage down, and was in the act of sitting down, when one or more cars struck and were coupled to the forward stone car, the force of the blow being imparted to the way-car, through the car of stone, which did not move perceptibly. The result was that the way-car sprang…