International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Mills

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued to recover damages arising out of an injury inflicted on his knee through a defect in an angle-cock, while he, in discharge of his duties as a brakeman, was endeavoring to cut off the air on a freight train. He recovered a verdict and judgment for $7500.

It appears from the evidence that an angle-cock is a portion of the air brake attachments on a train. The air travels from the locomotive through iron pipes and hose couplings to the rear of the train. The iron pipes run underneath the cars, and at each end of the pipes at the ends of the cars there is…