Lee v. Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad

The suit was for damages alleged to have resulted under the following circumstances: The plaintiff alleged, that he was an employee of the defendant company, in the capacity of a fireman, and, at the time he was injured, was working on its railroad. The special work in which he and those associated with him were engaged was filling in dirt at the end of a trestle. There were two stationary engines on a fiat car, and they were used in pulling a plow over the flat cars to scrape dirt from them, which had been placed there to fill in the trestle. The steam used in the operation of those…