This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... ( 286)--Injuries To Servant--Negligence--Nonsuit. Where, in a freight handler's action for injuries, the evidence showed that the defendant railroad company permitted a hole, with a makeshift cover likely to be disarranged, to exist on its platform where men were constantly employed in loading freight, as n result of which plaintiff was injured, and there was no evidence that either plaintiff or bis coempioyfis were performing their work in an unusual or careless manner, or that they must have known of the defect or that plaintiff's danger was so obvious and imminent that he must have assumed the risk, it was error to grant a nonsuit. Ed. Note.--For other cases, sec Master and Servant, Cent. Dig. 10IH, 100(5. 1008, 10101015, 1017-1033, 1030-1042, 1044, 1046-1030: Dec. Dig. 286. 2. Limitation Of Actions ( 127)--PleadIng--Amendment--Proof. In a freight handler's action for injuries, refusal to restrict the proof to plaintiff's original declaration was not error, though the amendment thereto was made after the statute of limitations had run, where both the original and the amended declarations averred the existence of an improperly guarded hole as the specific negligence relied on, although the former recited a different state of facts which if proved might have shown contributory negligence, and where it appeared that plaintiff could not read and that the lawyer who drew the first declaration failed to state the case fully according to the facts detailed to him by plaintiff. Ed. Note.--For other cases, see Limitation of Actions, Cent Dig. 1 543-547; Dec. Dig. I 127. Appeal from Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County. Trespass by John Collins against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company for personal Injuries...