Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. Glover

This action was brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for the death of "William D. Glover. The decedent was employed by appellant as a conductor of a stone train. Ills duties were to supply various stone quarries with empty cars to be loaded with stone, and to haul out loaded cars to the main, track. At 6 o’clock a. m. on December 15, 1897, the decedent and his train crew left Bedford for their usual day’s work. A few minutes after 9 o’clock they coupled engine number twenty-eight to some cars, and pushed them into the Hallowell quarry. *585The decedent, his two hrakemen, and a…