Snipes v. . Manufacturing Company

The evidence tended to show that defendant was a manufacturing company, operating a logging road under a charter, etc., and that on 21 June, 1907, plaintiff, employed as fireman on defendant's engine, was run over by said engine and seriously injured; that at the time of the occurrence the engine in question had stopped at a trestle which was being repaired, and the engineer and plaintiff, and others of the crew, went forward fifteen or twenty feet on the trestle to observe the work and note its progress; plaintiff sat down on a cross-tie, and he and the engineer were both talking to some of…