Hill v. Missouri Pac. Ry. Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff alleges that all of his life he has been a telegraph operator, and while acting as such for the defendant at Tioga, La., in 1924, he was shot and wounded by a robber, attempting to hold up. defendant’s station at that point, and, in consideration for a release of the defendant from liability, signed by him, “he was to have a life-time position with defendant as telegraph operator, or until such time as he retired on a full pension,” which would be at the age of seventy years; that he would be seventy years of age on April 29, 1933, but that on September 26,…