Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. v. Sylvester
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Richmond county— Judge W. F. Eve. October 12, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Broyles, J. S.
L. Sylvester, as administrator of B. T. Yarborough, brought his suit against the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Company, under the Federal “employer’s liability act,” to recover damages for the death of Yarborough. The petition alleged that Yarborough, at the time of his death, was in the employ of the company in the capacity of a switchman. His duties were to switch freight-trains in the yard of'the company, and to assist in transferring loaded freight-cars from the tracks of the company to the tracks of other carriers. On June 14, 1912, a train of freight-ears, loaded…
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