Johnson v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.

This is an action at law under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, a hostler’s helper at defendant’s roundhouse at Waukegan, Illinois. The complaint consisted of two counts and as amended alleged, among other things, that on March 7, 1945, plaintiff was employed by the defendant and on this date was engaged in filling the water tank of a locomotive tender and while so engaged was required to stand and walk about and on the top of said tender which was unsafe and in an improper condition in that the top where plaintiff was required…