Davis v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

*136The opinion of the. Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

This action was commenced on October 4, 1922, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of W. Baylor Richards, who was employed as a flagman by the defendant railroad company at the time of his death. Some time before Richards was killed, the defendant railroad company had employed Williams Bros. Construction Company as an independent contractor, to fill in a trestle on one of the lines of the defendant railroad company. In carrying on this work, the construction company used a steam shovel, and to understand this case it is…