Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Gill

This is one of the exceptional cases in which the court is constrained to reverse a judgment on ■ the verdict of a jury, on the ground that the evidence does not support the verdict. The appellee was in the service of the appellant, and as.part of his work, swept out freight cars standing on the track by a freight house. He complains that by the carelessness of other servants of the appellant, with whom lie had no association in the service, and without any notice to him, other cars were violently run against a car in which he was at work, knocking him down, whereby he sustained great injury.

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