Major v. Rudolph

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

This is a somewhat unusual grade crossing case.

Appellant was the assistant yard foreman in the Illinois Central yards at Paducah. While he with two other yard employees was riding on the footboard or platform of an engine that was backing in the yards, they at the time being in front of the engine as it backed, there was a collision at a grade crossing with an automobile driven by appellant’s wife and owned by him, in which collision appellant was injured.

In this action by the yard foreman against the owner of the car for damages, it is…