Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Reynolds

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment rendered against it in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in an action by the plaintiff, Reynolds, to- recover damages sustained by the alleged negligence of the railroad company. The basis of plaintiff’s claim as set out in his complaint is, that for several months prior to his injury he had been employed by defendant in its pump-house in the City of Denver; that it was his duty, one-half of *233each day, among other things, to operate, oil and clean an air compressor in the pump-house; that defendant negligently failed to maintain a guard-rail or…