Pennsylvania Railroad v. Hough

Action under the federal Employers’ Liability Act by appellee, a switchman, to recover damages for alleged personal injuries sustained by him on June 12, 1924, on account of alleged negligence of appellant in maintaining a defective brake on a freight car.

Appellant says that the essential controversies as to questions of fact are whether the ratchet wheel of the brake was inefficient and defective in the respects claimed by appellee, and whether appellee was injured and has been damaged in the manner and to the extent claimed by him.

The court overruled the appellant’s motion to make the…