Inman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Petitioner brought this action under the. Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 35 Stat. 65, 45 U. S. C. § 51, for personal injuries sustained in the course of his employment. Petitioner. for some seven years had been a railroad crossing watchman for respondent at “Bettes Corners” in Akron, Ohio. He filed suit claiming damages for an injury he received when an intoxicated automobile driver ran into him one midnight while he was on duty flagging traffic for a passing train. Bettes Corners is a heavily traveled vehicular' intersection where Tallmadge Avenue, running east and west, is intersected by…