Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Jackson

This was an action on the case, brought by appellee, in the Kane circuit court, against appellants, to recover for injuries received by falling from a car, and having his legs so badly injured or crushed by the engine passing over them, that they had to be amputated.

It appears that on Monday morning, the eighteenth day of November, 1867,. appellee, who was employed by the company as a brakeman, while engaged in the discharge of his duty, and being on the end of a freight car, holding to an iron rod, in obeying an order from his superior, in attempting to descend from the car for the purpose…