Owens v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

The plaintiff sues for the recovery of damages by reason of injuries received in a collision of freight trains while a fireman in the employment of defendant, and resulting from the negligence of the defendant. A clear case of negligence was made out, and, aside from the question which will be hereinafter noticed, the only contest upon the trial,was as to the amount of damages. The injuries received by the plaintiff were at the time apparently slight. They did not prevent him from -assisting in putting out a fire, which had started in the wreck of the train, *716nor from- assisting in other ways…