Erickson v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co.

This case was in this Court on appeal from the order of the court below sustaining a demurrer to the declaration, and is reported in 83 Mich. 281. It was there said:

“If it is true that the plaintiff, while acting under the foreman or boss, ivas ordered by him to pull the coupling-pin and jump across to the other car, and, without any notice to the plaintiff, the foreman let off the brake, which suddenly accelerated the speed of the car and widened the distance which plaintiff was to jump, and the plaintiff had no knowledge or information that the brake was to be let off, and by that means the…