Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Hansford

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

This is an appeal by the railway company from a verdict and judgment against it, whereby the appellee, Hansford, recovered $1,000.00 for personal injuries. Hansford was a section hand and was injured while loading, on a flat car, nnnsed steel rails which had theretofore been removed from the track and left on the right-of-way.

Hansford brought this action under the federal employers ’ liability act of April 22,1908; and the principal, if not the only, ground for a reversal is that the defendant’s motion for a peremptory instruction at the conclusion…