Southern Pac. Co. v. Hetzer
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Utah.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
About 5 o’clock in the afternoon of July 23, 1902, P. R. Hetzer, the plaintiff below, was the brakeman on the rear of a train of 22 cars which Tom Delano, one of the engineers of the Southern Pacific Company, was backing into a gravel pit. As this train approached a switch which it was Hetzer’s duty to throw, he gave the slow signal, and his fellow brakeman gave the stop signal, to the engineer. Delano applied the air, Hetzer fell to the track, one of the wheels of the rear car passed over his leg, and the train stopped. The injury to the leg necessitated its amputation…
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