O'Dowd v. Wabash Railroad

— This is a suit for damages, the alleged result of defendant’s negligence.

*661The plaintiff, an experienced switchman, while engaged as such in defendant’s employ, was injured in September, 1908, in its Kansas City yards, immediately north of the Union Depot. He had been in defendant’s employment for more than one year, and was familiar with the yards and the manner in which the business of switching was conducted. In the switch yards there are numerous tracks, but it will only be necessary to account for those that relate particularly to the issues of the case. There was a main track running…