Park v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, who was an engineer in the employ of the defendant, to recover for injuries sustained by reason of the collision with a freight train, caused by the negligence of one Brown, a brakeman in the employ of the defendant.

The freight train on the evening of November 21, 1891, had been switched from its regular track to the cast-bound passenger track near Canastota, and had proceeded eastward a little over a mile from that station when it became stalled and the train broke in two, leaving the rear portion of the train stationary at a point about eight…