Virgil v. New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad

Defendant appeals from a judgment in a personal injury action based on alleged violations of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and the Safety Appliance Acts.

Plaintiff, a switchman, was injured in a switching operation in LaFayette, Indiana, June 11, 1948. He charges that he attempted to set the air brake on a private car (Business Car 6, a passenger car used "by the railroad superintendent in traveling over the road) by opening an angle cock while holding the air hose in his left hand, in accordance with the established practice; that the angle cock was worn, dirty and out of alignment and…