Nicholaus v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

In November, 1888, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant, as a brakeman, and was running between Muscatine and Munn. He had been on this line about six months. In going out from Muscatine, after passing Wilton, there was a station called the “U. S. Limekilns/’ and Munn was still *86further out. It was the custom, at the limekilns, to leave on the switch the passenger coach and baggage car, and the rest of the train would run to Munn, and returning it would attach the cars left when going out, and proceed toward Muscatine. It frequently occurred that the engineer would stop at Wilton,…