Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Long
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; Jno. E. McCall, Judge. Action by J. J. Long against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Defendant in error (plaintiff below) recovered verdict and judgment against plaintiff in error (as defendant below) on account of injuries alleged to have been received by plaintiff while in defendant’s employ as brakeman.
Plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that while attempting, in the discharge of his duty, at one of defendant’s terminals, to climb to the top of a standing freight car, he reached up to seize the handhold or grabiron which should be upon the top of the car; that in his then position he could not see the top of the car, nor whether the handhold was…
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