Peters v. Wabash Railway Co.

This suit was brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act to recover for the death of plaintiff's decedent, James Cornelius Peters, who was killed on the night of December 1, 1925, while in defendant's employ as a switchman in defendant's freight yards in St. Louis. At the time of his death Peters was a member of a switching crew engaged in making up a "drag" of freight cars to be taken to another part of the city and put into a train. He was caught and crushed between one of the cars and an adjacent loading platform. Plaintiff obtained a judgment for $30, 000, from which defendant…