Peneff v. Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway Co.

Action for personal injuries. After a verdict for plaintiff, defendant appeals from the order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding or a new trial.

The injuries were sustained by plaintiff while he was engaged as a car i(lander” in the employ of the Shenango Furnace Company at the Webb mine near Hibbing. Defendant had placed a string of ore cars at the upper end of a gravity track ready to be let down to the ore pockets for loading. It was plaintiff’s duty, as the cars were needed, to release the brakes and permit them to move by gravity to the pockets and to set the brakes and…