Kansas City, M. & O. Ry. Co. v. Wood

Frank M. Wood sued appellant for damages for personal injuries sustained by him at Fort Stockton, Tex., on June 18, 1920, while assisting in coupling a water car onto a-fruit car. Wood had been employed by appellant railway company, which for brevity will hereinafter be called the railway company, as car inspector at San Angelo, Tex., and on June 17, 1920, was sent by said company to Fort Stockton to relieve one Akin, car inspector at that place. On the morning of June 18th, at about 6:20 o’clock, he was inspecting a freight train in transit in interstate commerce. While doing so, and just…