Akeson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co.

Por about two and a half years before the month of August, A. D. 1892, when the accident in question occurred, the plaintiff had worked for the defendant in its-coal house at Red Oak. IPis duties required him to shovel coal from the cars into chutes, to break the coal and wet it for use, and to assist in filling the tenders of locomotive engines with coal. In the month referred to, the coal house was rebuilt; and, while that was being done, tenders were-supplied with coal from cars which were placed on the coach track next to the main line. The sides of the coal cars were about four feet…