Roe v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

In the lower court appellant asked damages in the sum of $2,985 against appellees for injuries sustained by appellant on June 13, 1941, while appellant was employed by appellees as a section hand. He alleged in his complaint that appellees’ foreman directed him to put in a new crosstie “without giving him necessary tools and a safe place to work or assistance,” and that while performing this work the tie liook which he was using slipped and the soft gravel in the dump gave way causing him to fall and the tie to strike appellant’s left ankle. By their answer appellees denied the material…