Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. Stierwalt

This is an action for damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, alleging injuries to the person of appellee while employed by appellant as a brakeman on one of appellant's trains at Clear Creek, Indiana, January 22, 1923. The complaint is in a single paragraph, but contains two charges of alleged negligence. First, the use by appellant of a car, the coupler and coupling apparatus of which wás “broken, defective and inoperative and in such condition that said car could not be coupled onto an adjoining car without the necessity of someone going between the ends of said cars” in…