Supreme Court of the United States April 1, 1912, 206 (Brinkmeier v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.)

Mr. Justice Van Devanter

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action to recover for personal injuries

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sustained by a brakeman while coupling two freight cars on a side track of the defendant railway company at Hutchinson, Kansas. The defendant prevailed in the state courts, 81 Kansas, 101, and the píaintiff brings the case here.