Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Amack

William S. Bruner, while employed by the appellant as a member of a bridge gang, was killed by a train. Claim was made for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act. An allowance was made by the labor comissioner. The railroad company appealed to the district court, and from an adverse decision there has brought this appeal.

The question at issue is a narrow one. Bruner was working with a bridge gang, constructing a concrete culvert under a wooden trestle upon the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad between Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado. It is the…