Supreme Court of Iowa June 5, 1890 (McMarshall v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.)

Beck, J.

— I. Plaintiff’s intestate, A. L. Kern, was in his lifetime in the employment of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad Company as a train conductor. He was in charge of a train engaged in moving ice from the canal above the defendant’s railway station at Keokuk to an icehouse below.