St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Bricker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

Ulysses Bricker sued the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company and Aldace F. Walker and John J. McCook, as receivers of said company, to recover damages for injuries which he *323claimed to have sustained by reason of the negligence of the employees of said company and its receivers.

At the time of his injuries, plaintiff belonged to a bridge gang working under a foreman named Bower-sock, repairing and reconstructing a pile bridge on a line of defendant’s railroad in Ellsworth county. The bridge was situated in a southwesterly apd…