Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. June F. Darden

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suit, brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 1 was for damages resulting from an injury to plaintiff’s eye. Alleging that the injury occurred while plaintiff was performing his duties as an employee of defendant and was engaged in burring draft keys with a hot chisel and that defendant’s officers, agents, and servants performed the operation in which they were engaged in a careless, reckless, and negligent manner, plaintiff in precise detail set out the grounds 2 oí negligence on which he relied.

Defendant, in its answer, denied the allegations of…