Calkins v. Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway Co.

I. The petition charges that while plaintiff entered between the tender of the locomotive and a freight car to couple them together, and while he was in the act of making said coupling, and without any negligence on his part, “the engineer in charge of said engine, carelessly, and recklessly, and without aPy warning to plaintiff, suffered the brakes of said engine to become suddenly detached from the wheels, and in consequence thereof said engine and tender were permitted to back down with great force and violence, by reason of which plaintiff was caught by the right hand between the draught…