Santore v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad

While at work as a common laborer, shovel-ling ashes from an ashpit situated between the rails of the track in stall number four of the defendant’s roundhouse, the plaintiff was struck by an engine and injured. The roundhouse was divided into three sections of four stalls each, the sections being separated by brick walls; but there were no walls between the stalls of a section. Upon one side of stall number four was the sectional wall between the first and second sections. In each stall was an ashpit. The pit in which the plaintiff was at work was about three and one half feet deep; the width…