Meisenhelder v. Byram

Plaintiff appealed from a judgment entered pursuant to an order granting defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding a verdict for $21,500.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Glen G. McGill, was a head brakeman on one of defendants’ freight trains. At Fairfax, Iowa, as it came to a stop, he uncoupled the train between the second and third cars. Perhaps this was done before the train came to a standstill. It was unknown to the engineer. A very few moments thereafter the engineer backed the front part of the train, and Mr. McGill was caught by the couplers between the second and third cars and fatally…