Martin v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Ladd, 0. J.

The freight train, composed of thirteen loaded cars, twenty-six empties, and the caboose, was made np at Rock Island, from which place it departed at five o’clock in the morning. When it reached Perry street, in Davenport, a second .engine or “helper” was attached, and together the two pulled the train west to Farnam, where the absence of the head brakeman. was first discovered. ' Evidently he had fallen from the top of the train about fifteen or twenty feet west of Fillmore street, in Davenport. The circumstances warranting this inference are. (1) A dint in the snow between the…