St. Louis S. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Smitha, Admr.

In 1914, D. A. Swain brought suit in the District Court of Bowie County, to recover damages of plaintiff in error for a personal injury alleged to have been sustained by him while employed in interstate commerce by plaintiff in error, a common carrier by railroad, as the proximate result of plaintiff in error’s negligence in failing to comply with certain provisions of the Federal Safety Appliance Acts. The injury was inflicted in that portion of plaintiff in error’s yards at Texarkana which lay in Arkansas near the boundary of Texas. At that time D. A. Swain boarded and lodged at Texarkana,…