Norfolk & Western R. R. v. Emmert

Citations

• 83 Va. 640
• 3 S.E. 145
• 1887 Va. LEXIS 104

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—Employees—Negligent injuries— Contributory negligence.— Where the cars are of unequal height, crooked links are necessarily used to couple them. Employee, whose duty it was to couple them, had opportunity to know, and did know, these facts. Yet he went in between the car that was approaching by his own signal, and the stationary car, and used a straight link to make the coupling, thereby allowing the bumper of the former to pass under the bumper of the latter, by which means he was caught between them and injured.</p> <p>Held, :</p> <p>Employer is not liable.</p>