Nichols v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington District Court. This action is for tbe recovery of damages for a personal injury, sustained by the plaintiff while in defendant’s employ as a brakeman on one of its freight trains; such injury being caused, as plaintiff alleges, by the negligence of defendant and its employes. The verdict and judgment were for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNeed, J.
*155i. railroads: §gh?toSpM-: ohediencito signals. *154Plaintiff received the injury of which he complains while making a coupling between a stationary freight car *155an(^ a train of twenty-eight cars, which was backed to it by an engine. His hand was caught and crushed between the dead-woods, and the injury sustained is permanent, and of a serious character. It is alleged in the petition that defendant and its employes were guilty of a number of acts of negligence in the transaction. The district court, however, after hearing the evidence, dismissed all of the charges except one, which is that the…
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