Karras v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Wilson, O. J.

Plaintiff appealed from a judgment entered notwithstanding a verdict of $4,000. He also appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff was an employe of defendant. He assisted in unloading rails from flat cars. The work was done with a machine which resembled a steam shovel in appearance and operation. It consisted of an engine inclosed in a cab on a flat car and having a steel framework boom about 29 feet long in the end of which was a pulley for the operation of a shovel or dipper. In the instant work a shovel or dipper was not used. An 11-foot wooden…