Supreme Court of Iowa June 16, 1886 (Nichols v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.)

Need, J.

*155i. railroads: §gh?toSpM-: ohediencito signals. *154Plaintiff received the injury of which he complains while making a coupling between a stationary freight car *155an(^ a train of twenty-eight cars, which was backed to it by an engine. His hand was caught and crushed between the dead-woods, and the injury sustained is permanent, and of a serious character.