Davis v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Plaintiff was a hostler in defendant’s car barn at forty-eigth and Harrison streets in Kansas City. Certain cars called “trailers” could not take the electric current from the wire and be propelled thereby, but each of such trailers was used by coupling it to a car that could do so, known herein as a motor car. One of plaintiff’s duties as hostler was to couple these trailers to their respective motor cars. In doing so he was caught between them—the motor car and the trailer—and his chest crushed, resulting, as-he alleges, in the setting up of tuberculosis in his lungs. A trial in the lower…