Arizona Eastern Railroad v. Hudson

— In an action based upon the state Employers’ Liability Law (Civ. Code 1913,' pars. 3153-3179), Eli Hudson recovered a verdict and judgment against the Arizona Eastern Railroad Company. This appeal from that judgment raises the question as to whether or not there was any evidence that the accident occurred in the course of the work which Hudson was employed to do.

For some months prior to the accident he had been working as a section-hand at Queen Creek, twenty-two miles from Mesa, doing what was called track-walking, inspecting sections of the railway track by passing over some portion of it…