Shoner v. Pennsylvania Co.

The appellant was a section hand in the service of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, known as the “Vandalia” road.

The track of the Vandalia road crosses that of the appellee “at grade” at Plymouth, Marshall county, and the crossing of the two tracks was embraced in the section on which the appellant worked. On the morning of December 5th, 1887, the appellant and a co-employee, named Sullivan, were engaged in making some repairs to the track at the crossing, and while thus engaged were struck by a baggage-car which was being pushed over the crossing by one of the appellee’s…