Parrent v. Mobile Ohio Railroad Co.

The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant railroad company was injured while engaged, on the night of October 6, 1929, as a remember of a "wrecking crew" in rerailing a freight car in one of defendant's freight trains, which car had derailed near High Rock, Illinois. The derailment occurred on "defendant's main line" and the work of rerailing the freight car was for the purpose of facilitating and enabling the movement of the train of which said car was a part and which train carried interstate shipments of freight and also to clear the main line track in order that the movement of…