Haggerty v. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railway Co.

Hugh C. Haggerty was in the employ of the defendant as car accountant at Dubuque on the thirtieth day of September, 3887. On the evening-of that day he was killed while riding on the ladder on-the side of a box freight car. The evidence tends to-show that he came to his death by contact with a switch stand at the side of and near the railroad track.' -There-is some evidence tending to show that the deceased, jumped from the ladder, but the jury were fairly warranted from all the evidence in finding that he came to-his death by hanging on the ladder, and that he was-knocked off the ladder by…