Payne v. Hendrix

The plaintiff, while engaged in the work of helping to unload certain heavy iron beams from an open freight ear, which had been placed by the defendant along a platform for that purpose, was seriously injured because of the striking of one of the iron beams by a switch-engine of the defendant, moving backward along an adjacent and parallel track. Evidence was offered to prove that in the unloading of the beam it was necessary to turn it transversely, so that it would extend across the adjacent track, and that at the time the engine struck the beam it had so projected for about live minutes.…