Davidson v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co.

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George J. Davidson, the appellee, forty-six years old, between three and four o’clock in the morning of March 11, 1915, was in the employ of the appellant railway company as switchman in its yards near East Peoria, and while assisting the crew with whom he was working in making up a freight train for the Vandalia Railroad Company an automatic coupler failed to work by impact. He went between the cars attempting to fix it. His right wrist was caught and injured, resulting in a necessary amputation about five inches below the elbow. Appellant was engaged and appellee was then employed by…