Clark v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

The plaintiff's intestate, while engaged in the discharge of his duties as a brakeman for the defendant, was killed under the following circumstances: On the 25th of September, 1905, the train on which he was employed started from Rochester, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon reached Seneca Falls, where one car was to be left and three attached. For that purpose the engine and one car, known as the Syracuse car, were detached from the train and switched from the main track to a storage siding where there was a string of five or six cars, the most westerly of which was one loaded with…