Brightwell v. Lusk

This is an action for personal injuries founded on the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Defendants are the receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, an interstate carrier, and at the time of his injury, February 21, 1914, plaintiff was the foreman of a gang of section men employed in repairing a main track in defendants’ switch yards in Kansas City. The men were raising low joints in the track and had been thus employed during the day. In this operation they raised the track on jacks which supported it while they removed the soft material and filled the depression with…