Brunswick & Western Railway Co. v. Clem

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

This was an action for a personal injury. Clem was in the employment of the railroad company as a train-hand; and in March, 1886, his arm was crushed in the act of coupling cars, or more accurately, in the act of coupling a car to the engine. The record shows that in all probability, the casualty was produced by the defective spring of one of the bumpers. In consequence of that'defect, the machinery closed so as to clasp the arm and crush it. *536Clem broughthis action in August, 1886, and upon the trial a verdict was rendered in his favor for $1,467. The railroad company…