Schiefelbein v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

The following opinion was filed February 4, 1936:

Nelson, J.

Fred H. Schiefelbein, hereafter called the decedent, was employed by the defendant for many years prior to December 11, 1932, the date of his death. He was concededly an efficient and careful employee. For several months prior to December 11, 1932, he had served as a member of a night switching crew in the defendant’s yards at New Lisbon. The switching operation which the crew *38was conducting at the time decedent was fatally injured involved the transferring of four cars from defendant’s “valley division” train (No. 156) to its…