Henry v. Sioux City & Pacific Railway Co.

I. The plaintiff was engaged as a brake man upon defendant’s road upon the run from Missouri Val*53ley to the Missouri river. The train-men on that run consisted of a conductor, engineer, fireman, and one brakeman. On the twenty-second day of May, 1882, the run was being made from the river to Missouri Yalley with a train of about thirty freight cars. "When the train arrived at California Junction, a station on the line, orders were received to leave two empty stock cars at that station. Some switching was necessary to set out the stock cars and put them in the proper position on the side track.…