Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Southwick

The history of this case in brief is, that the appellee was appellant’s brakeman on one of its freight trains, and experienced in the duties of that position. He was injured at the station of Bensselaer, while in the line of duty and while engaged with the conductor of his train and the station agent in unloading a boxed piano from a car to the station platform. The piano weighed about eight hundred pounds. The station platform was thirteen feet wide and in good condition, but on the morning of the accident, about ten o’clock, it was covered with a thin scale of ice. Appellant had provided…