Reinke v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

HUNT, District Judge.

The plaintiff instituted this action to recover $5,000 damages for an injury to his thumb. He alleges that he was a laborer, hired by the Northern Pacific Railway Company; that on August 30, 1904, one McCarthy was an employe of the defendant, employed as an engineer operating a certain Ledgewood engine used by the defendant in unloading dirt and gravel from its gravel cars upon and along its tracks; that on August 30, 1904, plaintiff, as a laborer, was performing his duties, assisting in the managing and manipulating of a certain cable or wire rope, which was attached to…