St. Louis & Southeastern Railway Co. v. Britz

This was an action on the case, by appellee against appellant, for injuries received while employed as a laborer on one of appellant’s construction trains. The train on which appellee was employed was used in hauling gravel, and appellee’s principal work was that of a shoveler, in loading and unloading the cars. In the performance of this work it was necessary that he should ride on the train from the places of loading to those of unloading; and while thus engaged, on the evening of the 3d of April, 1873, the train on which he was ran into a passenger train standing on the track at French…