Baltimore & O. R. v. Darling

MACK, Circuit Judge.

On the night and at the time that he was injured, plaintiff, one of defendant’s yard brakemen, a man of 18 years’ railroad experience, was engaged in riding an intrastate car over the hump or gravity track to classification track 14. His specific task was to control the car by means of a brake, so that when moving by gravity it might not collide with the other cars on the classification track to their and its possible damage.

Track 14 was the shortest track in the yard. At the time of the accident a number of cars, intrastate and interstate, were on it. It was nearly full.…