Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Pinchin

The facts found by the jury in answer to *593interrogatories are substantially these : The appellee was injured while attempting to pass between two coal cars forming part of a train standing across a street in the town of Butler. He knew that the train was a through freight, bound west, and on approaching the train he stopped to the south of it five or six feet and stood there from five to eight minutes Before he attempted to pass between the cars. He did not know that an engine was attached to the train, but he did not go towards the head of the train to see whether there was an engine…