Zelenka v. Union Stock Yards Co.

Calkins, C.

The defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of maintaining stock yards at South Omaha in this state. Tbe conduct of its business requires tbe moving of railroad cars from place to place in said stock yards, over *513tracks provided for that purpose, for which the d*efendant employs some 12 or 14 locomotive engines, with the crews necessary to operate the same. The plaintiff’s intestate, Philip Zelenka, was a car oiler and repairer, whose duties required him to he in the defendant’s yards; and on the 13th day of November, 1905, while walking along and upon one of the railroad…