Svetkovic v. Union Pacific Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court for Douglas county rendered on a verdict for $1,000 in favor of George Svetkovic against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in an action for injuries to the plaintiff caused by being struck by one of defendant’s switch engines on or about November 14, 1908, while he was working for the Cullen-Friestedt Company in filling a sewer trench, which the last named company was constructing in the defendant’s railroad yards in the city of Omaha.

*371It appears that the company for which the plaintiff was working was engaged in constructing a sewer…