Author : William Francis Bailey
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230028385
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...him of the approach of the engine, where such, by rule or cutom, is their duty, and is only bound to exercise such care as would be suflicient to protect him, if the other employees has given the warning to which he was entitled. McLeod v. Chicago & N. W. R. Co., 104 Ia. 139, 73 N. W. 614. 421. A section hand injured by reason of a switch engine being backed upon him while he was engaged in cleaning tracks at a highway crossing, was guilty of contributory negligence where he saw the engine when it was several hundred feet distant awaiting a signal to cross, and resumed work with his back towards the engine. Carlson v. Cincinnati S. & M. R. Co., 120 Mich. 481, 79 N. W. 688. Whether a trackman, working on the track on a windy day at the direction and under the charge of a foreman, in failing to keep a lookout for an approaching train, was guilty of negligence, was held to be a question for the jury. Comstock v. Union Pacific R. Co., 56 Kan. 228, 42 Pac. 724. A trackman looking and seeing no train that could reach him while traveling 182 feet to the tool house, if the limit of speed prescribed by a city ordinance was observed, was not guilty of lookout. 4 2 2 contributory negligence in not looking back a second time where struck by a train within twenty five feet of the tool house. Camp v. Chicago Great Western R. Co., 124 Ia. 238, 99 N. W. 735. Where a train had been cut in two, and a section man engaged in repairing the track stopped ofi the track to let the first pass, and then stepped back on again without looking, and was struck by the rear section, and he knew of the custom to thus cut the train and saw the train approaching, it was held that he could not recover. Hadon v. Railroad Co., 48 N. W. (Iowa) 733. Where a section...