Stoddard v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.

This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Jackson county by plaintiff, who was an employee of defendant, and whose business as such was to assist in making up trains at the yard of defendant, in Kansas City, for the recovery of damages sustained by him while in defendant’s service. It is substantially alleged in the petition, that plaintiff was employed by defendant to assist in making up its trains, and that while so engaged in uncoupling a car from the tender and locomotive of defendant, the right foot of plaintiff was caught and fastened in what is known as a spring frog, so that he…