Siemer v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming..

Appellee and plaintiff below, Henry Siemer, was a car repairer, and was working as suck in tbe employ of tbe appellee and defendant in .its yards at Covington, Kentucky. His brother-in-law was working with him, and while repairing a car with one corner of it resting upon a jack set upon two blocks, the jack gave way, causing the corner of the car to fall, catching plaintiff’s leg under it and crushing it so that it was amputated below the knee. He filed this suit under the federal statute known as the Employers’ Liability Act, and sought a…