Game v. A.C.L.R. R. Co.

May 2, 1944. Appellant was for many years in the employ of respondent in its freight yards in the City of Florence, beginning as a switchman, and was serving on June 8, 1937, as a yard foreman. His duties were, with an engine crew and other employees called switchmen, to "break up" incoming freight trains, and "make up" outgoing trains. This was accomplished by complicated switching operations on numerous tracks radiating from a lateral or "ladder" track. His immediate superior in this employment was one McBride who was Terminal Trainmaster and also long experienced in the service of…