Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit April 24, 1901, No. 1,496 (Morris v. Duluth, S. S. & A. Ry. Co.)

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

In the early morning of April 6, 1899, while it was yet dark, the plaintiff, John Morris, who was the head bralternan of a crew of employés of the defendant, the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Company, stepped in between two cars which were moving along a side track at the rate of four miles an hour, and walked along with them, for the purpose of uncoupling them,