Renne v. United States Leather Co.

The following opinion was filed June 21, 1900:

Cassoday, O. J.

This action was commenced February 17, 1899, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained 'by the plaintiff October 8, 1897j while in the employ of the ■defendant, and riding upon the top of a freight car, for the purpose of setting the brake thereon, while being backed into its yards, by being swept from the top of the car by -an exhaust pipe extending horizontally from its boiler house to its beam house, over its side track or tracks, and *308thereby thrown down under the par and injured. The defendant answered by way of…