Hilton v. Southern Ry. Co.

Per ciuriam.

Appellant’s intestate, S. W. Hilton, at the time of his injury (from which injury he died) was an employee of the respondent, Southern Railway Company, in the capacity of conductor, and was therefore in control of and had the direction of the train of this respondent. At the time of the accident, the train consisted of an engine, tender, and two cars, one being an empty coal car and the other a box car loaded with cotton factory products for shipment over said respondent’s line of railroad. The train as thus made up was on a spur track, the cars above referred to being coupled to…