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

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

G. T. Helm was in the service of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & texas Pacific Railway Company as a detective, and his duties took him along the whole line of railway. •On April 3,1911, he was in Danville acting under special orders in making an examination of seals on freight box *341cars in the Danville yard. In discharging this duty, he went upon what is called the house track where eleven freight box cars were standing. One of the rules of the company required the foreman of the switching crew to give notice when the house track was to be…