Freyermuth v. South Bound Railroad

1. In the present case the granting of a nonsuit is under review. The plaintiff below, who here complains that the trial judge erred in not submitting his case to the jury upon the evidence introduced in his behalf, was an employee of the South Bound Railroad Company. He was injured while riding upon a hand-car, the immediate cause of the injury being the falling from the car of a large crowbar which, as it descended, caught the plaintiff’s foot and precipitated him upon the rails in front of the car, which ran qver and crushed him. It appears that the plaintiff was one of a number of hands…