Henderson v. Union Pacific Railroad

The defendant, Union Pacific Railroad Company, has appealed from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action for personal injuries brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act.

The plaintiff claimed in his pleadings and by his testimony that he suffered the amputation of his left leg below the knee as the result of the negligence o.f the defendant. His evidence is to the effect that on May 17,' 1946, while he was a member of a section gang in the employ of the defendant engaged in track work at the Company’s Albina yards, the handle of a chisel, which was being used in the removal of a…