Williams v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Frank Lamar Williams, a negro section laborer in the employ of appellee, was drowned at a place in a swamp where ap-pellee’s railroad track was washed out.

This suit was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., by decedent’s widow, in the capacity of administratrix, seeking damages to compensate her for the pecuniary loss she sustained by reason of the death of her husband.

During April, 1948 heavy rains occurred in southwest Georgia. Appellee’s track near Thomasville in the direction of Val-dosta was washed out at several different…