Nelson v. Michigan Tanning & Extract Co.

The plaintiff was employed as a brakeman on a switch engine of the defendant used in moving to desired places at the factory of the defendant cars of hemlock bark and also bark known as “hog feed.” There is testimony tending to prove that he was riding and standing upon the front end of a gondola car that was being moved at about 4 miles an hour, and when about 500 feet from a switch he signaled the engineer to slow down. The engineer slowed down to about 2 or 3 miles an hour. The plaintiff jumped off about 150 feet from the switch, on the right-hand (engineer’s) side of the track, and ran…