Pritchard v. Thompson

This is an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A., Sec. 51 et seq., to recover for injuries resulting from a fall from a trestle. Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $20,000, and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff was a bridge carpenter, and on the day of his injury, February 10, 1937, the bridge crew, under foreman Brooks, was engaged in putting new stringers in a bridge about three miles south of Aurora, Missouri. The bridge extended north and south and was constructed on wooden bents, the cross timbers of which are called caps. On top of the caps, and on either side of the…