Lierness v. Long Island Railroad

Plaintiff was a brakeman in the employ of the-defendant railroad company. He was hurt at about eight o.’clock A. M. of September 21, 1925, which hour was practically the close of his hours of work which began at midnight of the night before. The defendant .maintained a large freight yard in Long Island *303City known as the North Shore yard, and in which there was a large number of tracks utilized for shifting and moving freight cars. Plaintiff was required to uncouple a freight car from the locomotive. The car was one of a train of freight cars. The operation of -uncoupling required the…