American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid

American Railway Express Company, by its local agent and employees, unloaded from an express car onto a truck a steel shaft, cylindrical in form, some 15 to 16 feet long, about 2% inches in diameter and weighing about 925 pounds. The truck,, with the shaft thereon, was moved some 50 to 75 feet and left standing upon the cement platform of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Georgiana. Edgar Reid, 15 years of age, acting at the time as a newsboy, came to the station to get his newspapers and found them scattered upon the platform near the truck. While there, the heavy shaft, for some cause,…