McFall v. Iowa Central Railway Co.

I. It is without dispute that plaintiff was employed by the defendant company as a brakeman on its line of railway extending from Peoria, 111., to Oskaloosa, Iowa; that on Janluary 8, 1893, at Keithsburg, 111., and while in the performance of his duty in coupling cars, his hand was so mangled and crushed between the bumpers of some cars that it became necessary to amputate it. The negligence charged is in not furnishing a reasonably safe place for the plaintiff to work, and in negligently permitting its water tank to become out of repair, whereby the water was permitted to run on and over its…