MISSOURI-KANSAS-TEXAS RAILROAD CO. OF TEX. v. Bush

GRAY, Justice.

Appellee sued appellant for damages under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, Title 45 U.S.C.A. Sec. 51 et seq., for personal injuries. He alleged that appellant owned a network of railroad lines over which it operated trains in interstate com: merce; that on the night of July 26, 1953, he was acting in the course of his employment by appellant as a brakeman on a freight train and that while in the performance of his duties he was riding in the cupola of a caboose when he was struck in his left eye and on the left side of his face by an object thrown or otherwise propelled…