Brock v. Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company

DALTON, Presiding Judge.

This is an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., for damages sustained when plaintiff stepped from one of defendant’s engines into a hole of boiling water, scalding his right foot and leg. The' negligence charged and submitted was the failure to provide plaintiff with a reasonably safe place in which to work. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff for $14,000 and defendant has appealed.

■Plaintiff was employed as a brakeman on defendant’s southern division between Meridian, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama, in local freight…