Garrett v. Southern Railway Company

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this case was employed as a wheel moulder by Lenoir Car Works, a Tennessee corporation. He claims injuries from silicosis contracted from silica dust permeating the foundry. But the questions whether he had silicosis, and the amount of injury, are not reached in this phase of the case.

The sole question here is whether defendant, Southern Railway Company (hereinafter referred to as Southern), which acquired the entire capital stock of Lenoir Car Works (referred to hereinafter as Lenoir) in 1904, the year of the latter’s organization, so…