Baltimore & O. R. v. Doty

SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, who is the defendant in error here, brought suit in the circuit court to recover damages resulting to him in consequence of the alleged negligence of the railroad company while he was in its employment as a hostler in its yards at Newark, Ohio. A hostler, in railway parlance, is one employed in taking the locomotives as they come into the yard, and are left by the engineer who has been in charge, to the roundhouse, or other place of shelter, security, or repairs, or for supplies, and bringing them out again, as occasion requires, to the place where the…