Central Indiana Railway Co. v. Davis
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Hamilton Circuit Court; Ernest E. Cloe, Judge. Action by Rosa Davis, administratrix of the estate of Charles E. Davis, deceased, against the Central Indiana Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBatman, J.
— Appellee recovered judgment against appellant on the second paragraph of her complaint, which was drawn under the Employers’ Liability Act of 1911. This paragraph, after alleging that appellant is a corporation, engaged in business as a common carrier, and employing therein more than five men, and that appellee’s decedent, on March 27, 1917, was in its employ as a brakeman on one of its freight trains, contains the following averments, among others:
“That on said date the decedent was by said defendant *343ordered and directed to go to and upon a certain freight car then and there forming a part…
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