Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. McDonald's Administratrix

This action was brought by the administratrix of Alexander McDonald to recover from the Norfolk and Western Railway Company damages for the alleged negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate. McDonald, plaintiff’s intestate, was a conductor in the employ of the defendant company, and had absolute and complete charge of a construction train which was unloading, at the time of the injuries of which he died, eighty-five-pound steel rails. The rails were loaded in a- stock car; and had been shipped from the factory in that car, and had to be gotten out, and the question was how to get them out…