Kroener v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

The plaintiff was a brakeman in the employ of the defendant company. On the twentieth day of May, 1890, .and for some time before, his work was on a freight car. On that day he ran into the station of Yan Horn about noon, and in the evening he was set at work in the yard with a switching crew, which, besides the engineer and fireman, consisted of three men. It was the duty of one to pull the pins to cut the train or detach the cars to be shoved or “kicked” by the engine onto a track, -as desired; another was to “throw the switches;” and the third, which was the plaintiff on the night in…