Cain v. Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

About 1:30 a. m. on December 7, 1932, J. W. Cain, employed by the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company as car inspector and repairer, was found dead in its Wichita Falls yards. When found, his body, with one leg severed from it, was lying close up to and outside of the east rail of track No. 2 of the top yards on which an *104interstate train had been made up late the night before for leaving at 5 o’clock that morning. His lantern was found unlighted about halfway between tracks No. 2 and No. 3, ten or fifteen feet north of where he lay, and there were blood stains on…