Matson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.

It is averred in the petition “ that on or about May 5, 18S3, plaintiff was a servant and employe of defendant, being engaged as a member of a construction gang, whose duties required him to go upon the cars and trains of defendant, and ride upon the same, and to work about, upon and around said trains and the tracks upon which they were run, and, as a gravel-train man, his sole and only duties required constant labor about, around and upon trains, both while stationary and in motion; that he was about defendant’s ears and trains and upon defendant’s main track, and had just ridden upon…