DeMoss v. Great Northern Railway Co.

The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant, was injured while working under the direction of a foreman in removing false decking from a freight car. Plaintiff says he never performed such work before; that he was not familiar with the number of men required; that in removing the decking and taking it down some of it fell upon him and he was injured; and that this injury was caused “by reason of the negligence and carelessness of the said defendant in failing to furnish a sufficient number of men to do the work in which plaintiff was engaged, and by reason of the negligence and carelessness…