Seldomridge v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

BRANNON, PRESIDENT:

Walter Seldomridge, twenty-seven years of age, had been for four year®, up to the 18th of October, 1895, a fireman on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and before that a section boss. He knew all about engines and railroad service, and, in fact, was a competent engineer. He had been recently crippled in the shoulder from a fall from his engine, and the company placed him to watch at night an engine, the only one operating on the few miles of the Gauley Branch, connecting with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at-Gauley Junction; and also to watch freight cars standing at that…