Buffington v. Atlantic & Pacific R. R.

The plaintiff was a brakesman on the Kirkwood accommodation train, a passenger train of the defendant running between St. Louis and Kirkwood, and while engaged in the line of his duty had his arm crushed in coupling the engine to the baggage car.

The petition alleged in substance that the injury was occasioned by the defective and negligent construction of the engine ; that its coupling apparatus, instead of being on a plane with the coupling apparatus of the baggage car, was so high that when the engine and ear were brought together, the buffer of the engine did not strike the buffer of the…