Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Highfill

TEEHEE, C.

In this cause the parties occupied the relation of master and servant. The servant, R. T. Highfill, defendant in error and plaintiff below,, recovered a judgment against the master, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, plaintiff in error and defendant below, in a personal injury action brought and tried on the theory that the federal doctrine of the common law of master and servant controlled the merits oí the case for that the defendant was engaged in interstate commerce at the time of plaintiff’s injury.

Upon defendant’s motion to make his petition more definite and…