Supreme Court of Iowa January 27, 1903 (Branco v. Illinois Central Railroad)

Bishop, C. J.

-The appellant was in the employ of appellee as a section hand at the time of his accident and injury, and had been so for ffve years previous to such time. His employment, during all the time thereof, had been on a section constituting a part of a branch line of defendant’s railway extending north from Cherokee, this-state.