Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Herndon

The plaintiff below brought suit to recover for the homicide of her husband, who was in the employment of the defendant company as brakeman. It appears that on the night of the accident a freight-train of the defendant, made up partly of cars equipped with air-brakes and partly of cars not so equipped, Ipft Chattanooga for Atlanta, with Herndon, the plaintiff’s decedent, as middle brakeman, stationed on the first of the non-air cars. When in the vicinity of Tunnel Hill, a station on the defendant’s line of railroad, the train, on account of alleged defects in the coupling apparatus, became…