75 Iowa 84 | Iowa | 1888
— This cause has twice been in this court' before the present appeal. See 66 Iowa, 52, and 70 Iowa, 238. The accident occurred while plaintiff was making a coupling. A number of.cars were moved from the main track to a side-track, by the operation known as “kickingin.” Plaintiff, who was the only brakeman on the train, removed the pin which coupled the cars to the engine, and gave the signal to the engine to back, and, when the cars were run onto the side-track, he went on top of one of them, and proceeded to the rear end of the last car, where he descended to the ground, and ran to a standing car, for the purpose of coupling it to the others. He succeeded in making the coupling, but was struck by the moving cars and thrown to the ground, and the trucks passed over one of his feet, inflicting a serious and permanent injury. His claim is that he,made the coupling in obedience to a direction of the conductor, who was his superior, and whose orders he was required to obey; that it was the custom in the performance of such work for the conductor, when there was but one brakeman on the train, to go upon the moving cars, and by applying the brakes reduce their speed so that the
The the same as those given upon the first trial, and were approved on the first appeal, and they fully covered all the questions in the case. Those asked by defendant, and refused by the court, related to the same questions, and no prejudice could have resulted from the refusal to give them.
Aeeibmed.