Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Con. R. R. Co. v. Allen

Edward M. Allen, the deceased, had been in the employ of appellant from August, 1890, until his injury in December, 1890, from which injury it is alleged he died in February, 1891.

He worked on a section of appellant’s road, under foreman Small. At. the time of his injury he was attempting to pull a spike from a tie with a claw-bar, an iron instrument, a tool, about five or six feet in length, weighing about twenty-five pounds, the claw of which, when he threw his weight on the bar, slipped from the head of the spike and5 struck him, as alleged, on the left side of the head, producing, as…