Choctaw, O. & G. R. Co. v. Tennessee

THAYER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for personal injuries which was brought by Thomas Tennessee, the defendant in error, a brakeman in the employ of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company, against that company. The injury complained of was sustained on February 6, 1900, at Argenta, Ark., near Little Rock, at which place the company had an extensive yard for parking and making up freight trains. The plaintiff below was head breakman on a freight train of the defendant company which arrived at this yard about 10 o’clock p. m. on the night of the accident; having come from Memphis,…