Gibson v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Hascal R. Brill, J., made August 8, 1S92, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Charles Gibson, was a locomotive engineer employed by defendant on a switch engine in its yard at Gladstone, Michigan. He claims he was injured on August 29, 1890, by a fall in the cab of this engine.
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Appeal by defendant, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Hascal R. Brill, J., made August 8, 1S92, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Charles Gibson, was a locomotive engineer employed by defendant on a switch engine in its yard at Gladstone, Michigan. He claims he was injured on August 29, 1890, by a fall in the cab of this engine. The foot board on which he stood while running the engine was eight inches above the floor of the cab. It became loose at one end and finally went down, throwing…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Action for damages alleged to have been the result of defendant’s negligence while plaintiff was in its employ as a locomotive engineer. He worked a switching locomotive of peculiar construction. In the cab, elevated from the door, was a narrow foot-board or platform upon which the engineer stood when at work, that he might be the better enabled to see signals given by switch-men outside, and to handle the locomotive. On one end of this hoard or platform was a movable box. The plaintiff claimed that this footboard became loose; that he twice notified Bardsley, the person in charge of repairs,…
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