Duggan v. Wabash Western Railway Co.

The plaintiff in her petition alleged that she was the widow of Daniel Duggan, who, while in the employment of defendant as night switchman at its yard in Kansas City, Missouri, and engaged in his duty of coupling cars, was necessarily compelled to step on the track of defendant’s switch yard, and between and near the cars of defendant’s train, and in doing so, without any fault on his part, and by reason of defendant’s negligence in not blocking up the frog of said switch track, his foot was caught and firmly held in and between the rails of the track onand a part of the switch, whereon and…