Stenvog v. Minnesota Transfer Railway Co.

Plaintiff and appellant was engaged exclusively in trucking goods in defendant’s warehouse. Defendant took plaintiff from this work, for which he was especially employed, and directed him to assist another of defendant’s employees in loading heavy switch rails into a box car standing in defendant’s yards. After plaintiff had been at this work for about thirty minutes, he found that it became too heavy for him, and he complained to the foreman, that he could not do the work, because it was too heavy for him. The foreman, however, gave no heed to his complaint, but had him go on, until, as he…