Lassiter v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad

The plaintiff’s intestate, A. C. Lassiter, a freight conductor in the defendant’s service, was standing between the main track and a side track in the defendant’s yard in the town of Henderson, giving instructions to the hands on the top of the box cars as to the movements of his train. The train of which he was in charge was on the main track and backing towards him. He was looking at it as he gave the signals to the hands. On the side track a shifting engine with two box cars attached was moving backwards at the rate of about four miles an hour in the direction of the intestate, his back…