Shafer v. St. Louis, San Francisco Railway, Co.

— Suit for personal injuries in which defendant appeals from an adverse judgment. The question is not as to plaintiff’s injury but as to defendant’s libility therefore and incdentally as to whether the instructions given submit defendant’s liability on a proper theory.

The immediate cause of plaintiff’s injury was that he was assisting a brakeman of defendant railroad in unloading a barrel of Coca Cola, weighing some four hundred and fifty pounds, from a freight car onto the platform at the station of Wardell, Missouri, and in so doing the brakeman failed to support his side of the barrel…