McMarshall v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Lee District Court. — Hon. J. M. Casey, Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries received by plaintiff’s intestate, resulting in his death, while in the employment of defendant in the operation of its railroad. The injuries were caused by the negligence of defendant’s employes. There was a judgment upon a verdict for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
— I. Plaintiff’s intestate, A. L. Kern, was in his lifetime in the employment of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad Company as a train conductor. He was in charge of a train engaged in moving ice from the canal above the defendant’s railway station at Keokuk to an icehouse below. At the time of the accident he detached the engine from the cars in his train, and coupled it “head on” to some boxcars. The defendant had a track a few paces south of the track of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern railroad, upon which the intestate stepped for the purpose of giving or receiving…
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