Missouri Pac. R.R. Co., Thompson v. Gilbert, Adm.

On September 30, 1942, Walter Sexton Gilbert was engaged in the service of Ms employer, A. J. Spicer, Inc., in the unloading of gravel from railroad cars wMck were stationed along a switch track at or near an air field then being constructed by his employer 'near Newport, Arkansas. The switch track was connected .with the railroad line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. In the performance of his duties Gilbert was required to sit on the side wall of the car out of which the gravel was being taken, and while he was in that position employees of the railroad pushed a string of cars on to…