Armstrong v. Mobile Ohio Railroad Co.

This is an action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages on account of'the death of respondent’s husband, William N. Armstrong, which occurred while he was employed by appellant as an engine supply man in its yard at Murphys-boro, Illinois. He had just supplied ice to the cab of the defendant’s standing engine number 480 when he was struck by a grab iron on the side of the tender of defendant’s passing engine number 455 and rolled and crushed to death between the tender of that engine and the tender of the standing engine.

The case was tried on plaintiff’s amended…