Jones v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Webster, J., entered April 18, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in loading logs on a car.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
Action for personal injuries. Plaintiff recovered a judgment on the verdict of a jury in the court below. The defendant has appealed.
The action was brought under the Federal Employers’ liability act. The respondent was employed by the appellant as a car repairer. A carload of saw logs was being transported over the line of the appellant railway. This load of logs had spread so that it became too wide to pass through a subway upon the appellant’s line. It became necessary to rearrange the load of logs by drawing in the stakes upon the sides of the car. In order to do this it was necessary to…
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