Illinois Central Railroad v. Morrissey

Appellee was in the employ of appellant as a switchman in a yard used for freight purposes at Chicago, and while engaged in that employment as one of a switching crew, consisting of an engineer, a fireman and switchman, on ¡November 26, 1890, lost both feet by being run over by a freight car in the train • then being handled by such crew. He brought this suit for damages on account of this accident and recovered $13,916.

The declaration contained ten counts. The first and second counts charged that Albert Eose, the engineer in charge of the switch engine, was incompetent and careless; that he…