Koreis v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Waseca county to recover $15,000 for personal injuries, while in tbe employ of defendant company as a locomotive engineer.
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Action in the district court for Waseca county to recover $15,000 for personal injuries, while in tbe employ of defendant company as a locomotive engineer. The complaint alleged that engineers in the defendant’s employ were not afforded opportunity to inspect and care for their own engines, an engineer called for duty being obliged to take the engine then in line for service; that while in charge of a certain engine to he used in hauling a certain freight train, “the left go-ahead eccentric strap and other parts of the machinery of said engine broke; by which the reverse lever, which was then…
1Opinion of the Court
Jaggard, T.
Plaintiff and respondent, an engineer in the employ of defendant and appellant railroad company, when half way between two stopping points found that the keys and nuts for the bolts which fastened the left eccentric strap to the eccentric were gone and that the two *451halves of those straps had pulled partially apart. He repaired the engine by restoring the left eccentric strap to its proper position, putting a nut on the top of the bolt and a wire in the hole made for key to keep the nut in place. He then proceeded to the station for which he had orders, a distance of nineteen miles.…
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- Kreigh v. Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Steinbauer v. StoneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
- Broderick v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898
- Scott v. Eastern Railway Co. of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Nordquist v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
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