Dysinger v. Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw Railway Co.

Plaintiff had his arm caught between two dead-woods while attempting to draw a coupling pin. He stepped in between the cars while the slack was being given in order to enable him to draw the pin. No claim is made that the road-bed or draw-bars or dead-woods were defective or out of order.

Plaintiff was between 23 and 24 years of age at the time of his employment. He had never had any experience as. *647brakeman, but had lived in the vicinity of a railroad station, and was frequently at the station and around the cars while they were being handled 'at the station. He had, within six or eight weeks…