88 Ga. 19 | Ga. | 1891
Judgment affirmed.
The suit was for an injury to the plaintiff’s hand by crushing it between cars while he was preparing to couple them in the line of his duty. He obtained a verdict for $475, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial on the general grounds was overruled. The ‘testimony of the plaintiff and - another witness tended to show the following:
At night he was instructed by the conductor to couple an engine and cab to a stationary cab. He signalled to the engine to slack up, and then signalled it to stop; it did not stop but struck the cab and knocked it a few feet. He then signalled the fireman on the engine to stand still, and told him to stand still and let bim go in
The defendant introduced an agreement or rule signed by the plaintiff' eighteen days before the injury, to the effect that he. fully understood that defendant’s rules positively prohibited brakemen from coupling or uncoupling except with a stick, and that brakemen or others must not go between cars under any circumstances, for the purpose of coupling or uncoupling or for adjusting pins, etc., when an engine was attached to