Dodd v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.

James C. Dodd was employed by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad as a signal maintainer. As he traveled from Windsor to Clinton an extra freight train overtook and ran into the motorcar he was operating. At the time he was engaged in interstate commerce and for his death his widow, as the administratrix of his estate, recovered a judgment of $18,000.00 under the Federal Employers' Liability Act.

The engineer testified that as the freight train traveled south at a speed of forty, forty-three or forty-four miles an hour his view of the tracks was obstructed by the superstructure of a highway…