Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Golladay

This is an action for damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, J. L. Golladay, while in the employ of the defendant, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.

*296The plaintiff alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in that it failed to keep and maintain a certain machine, which it owned and operated, in a reasonably safe state of repair but allowed the same to become defective and become and remain in an unsafe condition, which condition was known, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have been known to the defendant and further that the defendant negligently and…