Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Dunn

The appellee sued the appellant to recover for personal injuries sustained while coupling cars in making up a train of freight cars in the appellant’s switch yards. The complaint places the right of recovery upon three distinct grounds, namely: The negligence of an unskilled engineer, the negligence of an unskilled associate switchman, and maintaining a coupling link so out of repair that it could not be raised *19and adjusted to the head of the opposite draw bar. A general verdict for the plaintiff constitutes the only finding, and the motion for a new trial presents the only questions urged in…