Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Dowd

The appellee, as administratrix of Patrick Dowd, brought her action in case against the appellant railway company, alleging in her declaration, in substance, that on the 9th of February, 1883, the defendant was operating a switch engine, used in switching defendant’s cars, and that the intestate, Patrick Dowd, was its servant, employed as a switchman to assist in transferring cars and turning switches, and that in the performance of this service it was necessary for him to climb upon the switch engine upon a certain step at the end of the engine, and that to maintain himself in a proper and…