Douda v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Ladd, J. —

Plaintiff’s employment at the time of his injury was that of cleaning out clinkers from the fire boxes of defendant’s engines in its roundhouse at Cedar Rapids. The usual method of performing this work wTas to drop the “dump” by means of a bar from outside the wheels of the engine while it was standing over the ash pit, and to replace the dumping mechanism in the same way. But in this particular instance the plaintiff thought it necessary to crawl under the engine into the ash pit in order to close the dump. He advised the “hostler” in charge of the engine, who was- in the…