Melius v. Chicago, Milwaukee & Pugget Sound Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Easterday, J., entered October 23, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for personal injuries sustained by a bralternan employed on a work train.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff, an experienced brakeman, was employed by the defendant on a dirt train. The train was made up of an engine and forty cars of a type known as the Western Air Dump car. At the time of the accident, to which we shall presently refer, the crew, consisting of a conductor, two brakemen, and the enginemen, were filling a trestle. The train had been hauled from where the steam shovel was operating to the trestle, and the loads had been dumped. The dumping was accomplished through the instrumentality of compressed air operated from the engine. The cars were equipped with eight chains, four…
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