Betoney v. Union Pacific Railroad

STERNBERG, Judge.

The plaintiff, Gilbert Betoney, was employed by the defendant, Union Pacific Railroad, as a laborer on a “system gang” which performed work on sections of railroad track throughout the railroad system. Late in the evening of November 15, 1978, Betoney was returning from a bar to a bunk car on which the system gang slept in the railroad yard in Rawlins, Wyoming. Betoney, in an admittedly intoxicated state, attempted to cross between two railroad cars of a moving train, slipped and fell between the cars, and was injured. His right leg was amputated at the knee as a result of…