Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Thompson

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Appellee, in trying to uncouple a freight car in a slowly moving train, while between the cars, got one of his feet caught in a defective frog of a switch, and being unable to extricate it in time, the foot was so crushed by a wheel as to require its amputation. ■In this suit instituted to recover damages for the injury stated on the ground of negligence in maintaining the frog, appellee recovered a judgment for $3,500; and the questions assigned as error before us on appeal are substantially: 1st. Whether there was error in excluding proof that appellee contracted with…