Tention v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company

ORDER

CHAPMAN, District Judge.

This case originated in the Court of Common Pleas for Lee County, South Carolina, and was removed to this Court on grounds of diversity of citizenship. The plaintiff alleges that he was injured when the door of a boxcar, which he was unloading, fell upon him. Plaintiff contends that said boxcar was put upon plaintiff’s employer’s property when in a dangerous, defective and unsafe condition, that said boxcar had a defective door track or door device and that the defendant knew or was in a position to have known of said condition and was negligent in allowing the…