MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.
It will contribute to brevity in this opinion to designate the parties as they were in the state circuit court, the defendant in error as plaintiff and the railroad companies as defendants.
The plaintiff, a switchman in the employ of the defendants, was in the act of mounting, by means of a Iadder, to the top of a box car to set the brake, when the hand hold or grab iron placed at the top of the ladder...
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