Ft. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Copeland

Willis Copeland sued the Ft. Worth Denver City Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the service of the defendant company as switchman, and while engaged in its yards at Wichita Falls in the work of switching some cars engaged in interstate commerce. The plaintiff had a judgment for $17,000, and the defendant has appealed.

A brief statement of the facts will suffice for the purposes of this opinion: At the point in appellant's yards where the accident occurred, the company has several tracks known, respectively, as tracks No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3,…