Schlueter v. East St. Louis Connecting Railway Co.

This cause has recently been reassigned to the writer to express the opinion of this court. The action is one to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been suffered by respondent because of appellant's negligence. Respondent was in the employ of appellant as a switchman, and was injured by the derailment of an engine tender, upon the footboard of which he was riding in the performance of his duties in the switch-yard of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company at Dupo, Illinois, about 4:40 o'clock on the afternoon of January 6, 1922. It is conceded by the respective parties…