Hale's Administrator v. Illinois Central Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

John Hale, while working as a section-hand for the appellee railroad company, fell from a hand-car on which he was riding and received injuries from which he died. His administrator brought this suit to recover damages for his death, and upon a trial before a jury there was a *471verdict and judgment for the railroad company. At the time Hale fell from the hand-car it was running at a speed of about twelve miles an hour, and, as some of the witnesses say, coasting down grade. Hale was standing with his back in the direction the car was going and was…