Killen v. New York Central Railroad

At about four-thirty o’clock in the morning of February 28, 1925, an engine drawing one of defendant’s freight trains became disabled by the clogging of the automatic stoker, a stone of considerable size having passed into one of its conveyor worms and prevented it from turning. To repair same it became necessary to bring the train to a standstill and when done the engine rested about 2,000 feet easterly from the West Henrietta road in the town of Brighton and the rear of the train extended westerly therefrom for about eleven car lengths. One of its cars, an iron gondola, stood astride the…