Hilts v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Ry.

George Jones was run over by defendants-engine and killed, while in the employment of defendant, April 15, 1882. He was an ordinary laborer, engaged under a section boss at repairing the track, changing iron, shoveling dirt and gravel, raising low joints, etc. It was the duty of' the section men to unload gravel trains, or do anything that the road-master told them to do. If an employee lost his-tools, or they were carried off through his negligence, they were charged up to him and he was obliged to pay for them. On the day the deceased was killed, he, with a number of' other section men,…