Thayer v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute R. R.
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Vigo Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtPerkins, J.
Alfred Thayer brought an action against the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company, alleging as his ground of complaint that he was a brakeman upon a freight train owned and run by the company, and that, while acting for the company, he fell through a culvert and received great bodily injury, under the following circumstances, viz: lAt a point on the road there is a culvert which is now, and • 'has been since the road was constructed, uncovered, but of "what dimensions the culvert may be is not stated. Year that *28culvert a switch branches from the road, “ over which it frequently…
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