Fitzpatrick v. New-Albany & Salem Railroad

The complaint charges that the appellees, •who were the defendants, were engaged in ballasting their road with sand and gravel, and for that purpose had in use a train of cars called “the gravel train;” that a number of laborers, the plaintiff being one of them, were employed in excavating gravel from certain banks, loading the same in said cars, and afterwards unloading and distributing it upon the defendant’s road; that many of said laborers, of whom the plaintiff was one, boarded and lodged in the town of Orawfordsville, distant two miles from the gravel banks, who, by agreement with the…