Chesapeake Ohio R. Co. v. Russo, Admr.

On and for some time prior to June 8, 1925, one Tony Companion was in the employment of appellant as a member of a crew of men working as track repair and track maintenance men on appellant’s main line of interstate railroad. On the day named, said crew was working in Grant County, Indiana, and near the station of Converse. The derailment and wrecking of a freight train on appellant’s road at the place where the men were working caused the death of said Companion, who was the “water boy” to said crew, and this suit was brought by the administrator of his estate to recover damages resultant…