Reed v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

IvERDER. District Judge.

The accident on account of which this suit was brought occurred oti the yards of ilie defendant company at Bluefield, W. Va., on October G, 1905, about 11 o’clock a. m. The plaintiff, a brakeman of some seven years’ experience, was a member of a yard crew, and on the morning of the accident this crew had received orders to detach from a freight train which had arrived at Bluefield from Roanoke, Va., at about 3 o’clock a. m. that morning, three flat cars loaded with steel rails, and remove them to the east end of the yard, there to be unloaded. The rails protruded so…