St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Mills

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action under the federal Employers’ Liability Act (Comp. St. §§ 8657-8665) to recover damages for the death of Ira S. Mills, an employee of the plaintiff in error, a railway company; the death of the employee being attributed to negligence chargeable against his employer. In the trial there was evidence to the following effect:

The employee entered the service of the employer on the Monday next preceding the Thursday night when he was shot, as stated below. His work was that of a car inspector at the employer’s East Thomas yards, in Birmingham, Ala., and…