Chadderdon v. Michigan Central Railroad

Plaintiff was an employé of the Dowagiac Manufacturing Company, engaged with others in loading a car with seeders or grain drills for shipment upon defendant's road. The car was standing upon a spur track built by the defendant company for the accommodation of the manufacturing company, parallel to the main track._ When the car was partly loaded, and before the seeders in the car had been braced to hold them in place, a train came in with two or three cars loaded with pig iron to be put upon this spur track for the manufacturing company. In order to do this, defendant attached the train to…