Lunsford v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Townsend, Judge.

1. 45 U. S. C. A. § 51, a part of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act,- provides that every common carrier by railroad in interstate commerce “shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed” by the carrier, or to designated survivors in case of death, where the injury results “in whole or in part” from the negligence of the carrier. It thus, as to employees or their survivors, modifies the common-law rules relating to degree of negligence, assumption of risk, fellow-servant doctrine, and other like respects. It does not state, as does the…