Balhoff v. Michigan Central Railroad

The plaintiff’s intestate, her husband, was killed upon defendant’s railroad, under the following circumstances: He was acting as a brakeman upon a freight train, a portion of which was being backed upon a siding for the purpose of making a coupling to some cars standing thereon, after having been coupled to two flat •cars loaded with logs. After making the coupling to the flat cars, the deceased sat upon one of them, between two piles of logs, and was killed by the train’s leaving the track and striking another car, which caused the logs to shift and crush him. The intestate had been engaged…