Jeffries v. Long Island Rail Road

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for plaintiff in an action for personal injuries.

The plaintiff, a workman, engaged in unloading steel beams from a gondola-type railroad car on a railroad siding, was injured when it was severely bumped by another gondola-type car running downhill on the side track. A fellow workman had released the air brake on the uphill car and the workmen intended to let it coast down the track in such manner as to tap the downhill car just enough to move it ahead a half car length in order to complete the unloading. The uphill car, however, allegedly…