Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railway Co. v. Snyder

— This was an action by the appellee, as the administrator of James Pickner, deceased, against appellant to recover damages on account of a personal injury, which resulted in the death of decedent. The *648complaint, omitting the formal parts, sufficiently alleges, among other things, that the deceased, while in the employ of appellant as a section hand, in the proper discharge of his duties as such servant, in operating a hand car upon appellant’s road, was injured and thereby killed by reason of the negligence of appellant in failing to furnish him safe machinery and appliances with which to do…