63 Ind. App. 504 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1916
Lead Opinion
Appellee’s complaint, in so far as is necessary to a determination of the questions raised respecting it, is in substance as follows: November 23, 1911, appellant was operating a coal -mine in Blackburn, Pike county, employing therein fifty men. The mine was located on the line of the Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad Company, which extended north and south, and consisted of a main track and several side or switch tracks, the one involved here being east of the main track. The switch track was used both by appellant and by the railroad company in conducting their respective enterprises. Appellant’s tip house was located on the sidetrack, at a point 300 feet south of which appellant maintained its track scale and scale house “theretofore constructed by it at said place, for the purpose of weighing railroad cars loaded with coa! as they were moved
On November 3, 1911, appellant loaded a railroad car with coal at the tipple and thereafter dropped it southward along the switch track towards the main line. “As said ear passed over said track scale, it became and was the duty of plaintiff’s decedent to weigh said ear of coal; that in order to do so, it was necessary for him to go inside said scale house for that purpose; that at said time said decedent was in the discharge of the duties of his employment, and was on the west side of said switch and south of said scale house; that the door opening into said scale house was on the north
Other questions presented are not considered, as they are not likely to arise in a new trial.
Judgment reversed, with instructions to sustain the demurrer to the complaint, with permission to amend, if desired, and for other proceedings in harmony with this opinion.
Rehearing
On Petition for Rehearing.
Appellee in support of a petition for a rehearing argues: First, ths it in actions brought under the act of 1911 (Acts 1911 p. 145, §8020a et seq. Burns 1914)
Other questions are discussed, hut we discover no reason why we should not adhere to our original conclusion. Petition for rehearing overruled.
Note. — Reported in 113 N. E. 465, 114 N. E. 96. Contributory negligence as defense, statutes affecting, in actions by servants against masters, 5 Ann. Cas. 633; 26 Cyc 1229. Conclusions of law, what constitutes, 31 Cyc 52-65.