Carver v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.

The injury for which plaintiff seeks to recover resulted from his being struck by a mail bag thrown from the mail car in a passenger train on defendant’s road while the train was still in motion. Plaintiff, at the time of receiving the injury, was standing on the passenger platform of defendant’s road at the town of Otho, and near the north end of such platform, the train *348coming from the south. He was thus standing on the passenger platform by reason of his employment, in which he had been engaged for about six years, as carrier of United States mails to and from the mail trains at this…