Louisville & N. R. v. Kelly

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The case is briefly but sufficiently stated in the court’s charge to the jury, as follows:

“The plaintiff, a former brakeman in the service of the defendant railroad company, has brought this suit to recover damages for alleged negligence of the defendant, resulting in crushing the plaintiff’s right hand, and causing permanent injury. In the declaration divers specific acts of negligence are imputed to the defendant, including—First, the want of ordinary care in the employment of an incompetent locomotive engineer, whose unskillfulness, it is alleged in one portion of the…