Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Frazier

J. T. Erazier brought suit against Western & Atlantic Railroad in which he alleged that he was a yard conductor for the Southern Railway, and that his duties at times required him to make deliveries of cars to the yards of the defendant; that for the purpose of interchanging ears there was a transfer track connecting a track of the Southern Railway with the south-bound main line of the defendant; that upon reaching the switch at the defendant’s main line he alighted from the engine on which he had been riding in the space between the defendant’s north-bound and south-bound tracks, so that he…