Illinois Central Railroad v. Townsend

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On September 2á, 192.1, tlie appellee and plaintiff below, Mort Townsend, who was 42 years of age, was a member of an extra gang in the employ of appellant and defendant below, Illinois Central Railroad Company, and was engaged in laying new rails in tlie track of defendant, a part of which runs through Grayson county. Another extra gang was engaged in the same work, and each of them were transported to their work and carried their tools and some supplies in a gasoline motor hand car. Between two and three hundred yards from the point where the…