Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gossett
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Superior Court of Marion County (70,8Q6) ; Lawson M. Harvey, Judge pro tem. Action by Hattie Gossett, as administratrix of the estate of Robert A. Gossett, deceased, against the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company, and another. Prom a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff for $8,875, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
Appellee’s decedent, a brakeman on a freight-train of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company, and hereinafter designated as the Big Pour, was killed by falling between cars while the train was being operated over a portion of the road of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, hereinafter designated as the Belt, road, by the alleged negligence of both of said appellants.
The material facts set out in the first paragraph of the complaint are as follows: The Big Pour in operating one of its lines from Brightwood to the city of St. Louis, Missouri, uses a part of the'…
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