Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Rung

In the month of March, 1879, John Bung, the appellee, was in the employ of the appellant, the Chicago and Eastern Bailroad Company, at Chicago, as a yard switchman. On the 7th of that month, while engaged in coupling some coal cars in the company’s yard, by a sudden and unexpected movement of the locomotive engine used in bringing the cars in position, occasioned by its throttle valve being out of repair, appellee’s right hand ivas caught and crushed between the dead-woods of the two cars, resulting in the loss of one of his fingers. He subsequently brought an action against the company in…