94 Ga. 571 | Ga. | 1894
The plaintiff was employed by defendant as a brakeman on a- local freight-train. He -was ordered by the. conductor of the train to cut off two of three cars which the engine was pushing on an up-grade. They were^ moving slowly, about three miles an hour. The conductor told him to hurry. He stepped between the cars- and endeavored to pull out the coupling-pin, but it was tight and would come but part of the way out.- He continued to try to pull it out; walking as the train moved, and after going about six or seven steps or more, his foot became fastened between the main rail and the guard-rail opposite a switch-frog. He halloed and threw out his arm as a signal to stop, but it had no effect, and. he was thrown down, pushing himself outward from the-cars in an effort to escape, and his foot and arm were,