Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Music

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The appellee, Heber Music, was ruptured, while unloading cross-ties for his employer, the appellant, and has recovered judgment for $675 against it for those injuries.

The ties had been shipped in a gondola car to the point where the accident occurred. The method used in unloading them was for two men to lift one end of the tie and place it on the edge of the car, and the appellee would raise the other end and lift it around or shove it over the side, letting it fall to the ground. The ties had notches or channels cut across them ahont 18…