Collins v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Defendant appealed from an order denying.its alternative motion for judgment non obstante or a new trial.

Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a switchman. He was riding in the nighttime a loaded box-car pushed over a “hump” in the well-lighted Cedar Lake Yards and traveling by gravity to a particular track. He was injured by falling from the car. Plaintiff’s version of his experience is substantially this:

Before I got to the top of the “hump” I tightened the brakes and *they took - hold. They squealed or hollered and I released them. From the “hump” there urns a slight decline. As I started…