Riley v. Wabash Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been received by plaintiff on January 1, 1926, while both plaintiff and defendant were engaged in interstate commerce, and while plaintiff was employed as fireman on one of defendant's passenger locomotives, hauling a passenger train from St. Louis, Missouri, to Omaha, Nebraska, resulting from stepping upon a clinker hook, placed on top of the engine tender, when plaintiff went upon the tender to supply the engine with water, at White Cloud, Iowa. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and assessed his damages at…