Gaines v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. of Canada

While employed as a car repairer in defendant’s repair yards at Durand, Mich., plaintiff was injured as the result of striking the plunger of a defective drawbar with his hammer and thus releasing the compressed spring at its base, which threw the plunger, or other interior parts upon which the spring acted, violently out of the end of the drawbar in front of which he stood, and against him. On a former trial it was shown that the drawbar was part of a foreign car which came under defendant’s control while engaged in interstate commerce, and was then being repaired in compliance with…