Watson v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co.

This action, under the Federal employer’s liability *453act of April 22, 1908, against the railway company, for the wrongful death of the plaintiff’s intestate, is predicated solely upon the violation by the railroad of the Federal boiler-inspection act of February 17, 1911, as amended by several later enactments, including that of June 7, 1924, in its failure to observe rule 131 of the interstate-commerce commission requiring that each locomotive used in yard service at night should be equipped with two lights in good condition, one in the front and one in the rear, of sufficient illumination to…