Fryer v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action based upon violation of the Federal Boiler Inspection Act, U.S.C.A., Title 45, Chapter 1, Section 23. Plaintiff's petition was in two counts, the first, for damages for the death of her husband, the second, for damages for his conscious pain and suffering. Plaintiff's petition pleaded the facts concerning his injuries, as follows:

"3. Plaintiff's said husband, in the line of his duties and in the course of his employment, left the defendant's terminal at Springfield, Missouri, for Muskogee, Oklahoma, as engineer on locomotive engine No. 384, then and there being used and…