Vautrain v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

Plaintiff, who was a brakeman in the employ of defendant, brought this suit to recover damages for injuries alleged by him in his petition to have been sustained by the negligence of defendant in leaving a hole under a switch rod, on the track of the road where he was engaged as brakeman in coupling cars, and that while so engaged, without negligence on Ms part, his foot became fastened in said hole, and he was knocked down and run over by the cars, whereby his foot was crushed and his right arm so injured as to necessitate amputation at the shoulder.

The answer of defendant, besides…