Armstrong v. C. W. I. R. R. Co.

The negligence charged in the first count was that it was the duty of the defendants to furnish Armstrong a reasonably safe place to work in, but they negligently permitted certain unlighted freight cars to be in close and dangerous proximity to the lead or running track on which he was working, and the accident happend as the result. The second count was like the first, except that instead of relying only on the alleged duty of both defendants to furnish a reasonably safe place to work, it alleged that the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Company (hereafter called the Indiana Company)…