Pharr v. . R. R.

The plaintiff's intestate was a brakeman in the employment of the defendant's lessee, the Southern Railway Company, at the time he is alleged to have been killed by the negligence of (419) the latter. A freight train on its way from Spencer to Charlotte had reached a point on the line of the lessee's railway, called "The Junction," and it was the duty of the intestate at that place to uncouple the train between cars 20 and 21 for the purpose of having the cars of the rear section transferred to another track. In order to do so, it was necessary for the engineer to move the train back and…