Bird v. Sparks

'.Simmons, Chief Justice.

The Georgia Southern & Blorida Railroad Company had been placed in the hands of a receiver by order of court. Bird was a brakemam and ear-coupler employed by the ne«ceiver to work upon a freiiglit-train, and was injured in the •act of coupling tw'o freighhears. He filed his intervention to recover damages for the injury so. received. He alleged that there was a defect in the bumper of one of the ears he attempted to couple; that the ¡cross piece had become disarranged from too heavy pressure, and that it was too low to couple to the other car; tlrait the link was…