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

RAGLAND, J. —

This is an action under the Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages sustained by plaintiff while employed by defendant as locomotive engineer on one of its interstate freight trains running between Amory, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee. As the facts are set forth somewhat at length in the opinion handed down on a former appeal in this case (Martin v. Railway, 323 Mo. 450), we shall only epitomize them here.

The freight train in question was being drawn by tw’o locomotives, both at the head of the train. Plaintiff was the engineer on the second. At a point on defendant’s…