Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Hundt

The evidence on the trial of this case tended to prove that on the 4th day of -November, 1888, the appellee, then a boy of the age of eighteen years, was in the service of the appellants as a track laborer for $1.25 per day. He had been in their service in that capacity for about seven months, but at another part of their tracks, until the day on which he received the hurt that is the subject of this action. At the place where he had worked for them, when a car was switched to run loose, called “ kicking,” a man rode it to prevent damage.

He, with another laborer, was directed by the foreman…