Campbell v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

On May 8, 1906, while appellee was at work for appellant as one of a switching crew, working with a switch engine of appellant in the yards of Deere & Company in Moline, appellee, at the head end of a string of three cars, gave a signal to the engineer to come ahead and, after the cars started, stepped upon the brake-beam with his foot or feet and at the same time put up his hands to take hold of the grab-iron on that end of the head car on that side, and failed to catch hold of it, and, finding himself falling, sprang to one side and threw his body outside of the rail. The front wheels…