Perry v. Michigan Central Railroad

' Plaintiff, a brakeman in the employ of the defendant, was injured at Grand Rapids, while engaged in coupling cars. The fourth count of the declaration sets out the claimed cause of action, and it is alleged that plaintiff was a brakeman on a freight train, in defendant’s employ, and that, in making up the train, it was the duty of the defendant to put therein only safe and proper cars for transit, furnished and provided with safe and proper appliances to enable the plaintiff to perform his duty as a brakeman in coupling and uncoupling the same; but that the defendant, disregarding its duty,…