Gaffney v. N.Y. N.E.R.R. Co.

This action was trespass on the case to recover for injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant's negligence. After verdict for the plaintiff the defendant filed this petition. The plaintiff was employed as brakeman on a freight train by the defendant in November, 1883. While in that employment, his train stopped at Caryville, on the defendant's road, to take a box car from a side track, near which were a store-house and two piles of lumber. He coupled a box car to the engine, which then took that and two flat cars down the track to the other box car. On the return of the train thus…