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

The defendant appeals from a judgment on a jury for plaintiff for $15,000 in a personal injury action. The plaintiff, when injured, was a section foreman, who, with three other men, was engaged in maintaining a section of defendant's main line railroad extending through this State from Birmingham, Alabama, to Kansas city, Missouri. That plaintiff and defendant were engaged in interstate commerce is not contested, and the action is governed by the Federal Employers' Liability Act. This section crew was furnished a motor hand car and plaintiff was injured while this crew was attempting to…