Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Safety-Appliance Act and the validity of a verdict against the carrier, are stated in the opinion. Defendant in error received injury caused by a defective ladder, on a box car while he was working as a switchman in the yard at Marshall, Texas. He recovered under the Safety Appliance Act.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Safety-Appliance Act and the validity of a verdict against the carrier, are stated in the opinion. Defendant in error received injury caused by a defective ladder, on a box car while he was working as a switchman in the yard at Marshall, Texas. He recovered under the Safety Appliance Act. To recover he must bring himself under the Safety Appliance Act and under the Employers’ Liability Act. Both the car and the man must be engaged in interstate commerce. III. Cent. Ry. v. Behrens, 233…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
The defendant in error, Rigsby, while in the employ of plaintiff in error as a switchman in its yard at Marshall, Texas, was engaged, with others of the yard crew, in taking some “bad order” cars to the shops there to be repaired. The switch engine and crew went upon a spur track, hauled out three cars, and switched them upon the main line, intending to go back upon the spur track for others, to be taken with the three to the shops, which were on the opposite side of the, main line from the spur track. Rigsby, in the course of his duties, rode upon the top of-ene of the cars (a box car) in…
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