Mitchell v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff, a resident of Covington, Kentucky, while employed as a switchman by defendant in the Decoursey Yards, near Covington, Kentucky, was injured on the 3rd day of July, 1938, by being knocked from the top of a ladder on the side of a freight car that he was then engaged in switching, by the alleged negligence of the defendant; thrown to the ground and injured. He brought suit in the city court of East St. Louis in St. Clair county, under the provision of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, conferring concurrent jurisdiction…