Hallihan v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

Action for damages for injuries resulting in the death of plaintiff’s husband. Plaintiff had judgment for $5,000. The yards of defendant, where the accident occurred, are about ten acres in extent, and covered with a net-work of tracks, where the switching of cars and the making up of trains was going on almost continuously during the busy season. It seems to be the customary manner of switching cars in the yard of defendant for the engine to take the cars up toward the bridge then kick ” them off, when they are cut off by yardmen to run on the different tracks wherever' wanted; and that cars…