Thompson v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

For some years prior to the 7th of May, 1914, appellee company owned and operated at Ferguson, Pulaski County, Kentucky, certain repair shops wherein its engines, which were engaged in both interstate and intrastate commerce, were repaired. '

The shops being inadequate for the purpose for which they were used, some time prior to May, 1914, the company began the erection of certain additions to or extensions of their shops, and appellant, while engaged as a member of a carpenter crew working on one of the extensions, was injured, and brought this…