Neves v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kbphart,

Plaintiff, a railway postal clerk, was employed on a mail car hauled on one of defendant’s trains. The car took on board some parcel post packages consisting of baskets of potatoes. They were taken from a truck standing by the car door and placed in the mail car by one of defendant’s employees. The packages were being loaded faster than plaintiff could move them away, and a pile about two feet high was formed. One of the baskets rolled off the pile against plaintiff’s foot, causing him to fall and sustain injuries. The basket weighed about seventy pounds. His…