Redding v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad

Hall, Justice.

[Nias (or Ananias) Redding brought suit against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad for a physical injury to him. On the trial, the evidence for the plaintiff shoAved, in brief, as follows : Plaintiff was a car-coupler for the defendant. It was the duty of the conductor or flagman to give signals to the engineer in coupling or uncoupling cars, and the train was under the general control of the conductor. At Baxley, the conductor went into the telegraph office, telling the plaintiff to leave two cars on’ the side track; the cab was uncoupled, and the train *386moved up…