Miller v. Michigan Central Railroad

The defendant brings error in this case to review the proceedings of the court below, in which the plaintiff was permitted to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant. The plaintiff was an employé of defendant, and was engaged at work in the line of his employment at the time of the accident. The conductor of a train which stops at *375all the stations along the line to pick up and unload all kinds of freight, on reaching a certain station, was informed by the station agent that two pieces of timber, about 8 inches square and 25 or 30 feet long,…