Vaught v. East Tennessee & W. N. C. Ry. Co.

The petitioner, Will Vaught, filed his petition in the law court at Johnson City, Tenn., against East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railway Company, seeking compensation under the workmen’s compensation statute (chapter 123, Acts of .1919) for an injury sustained by him in January, 1922, while in the employ of defendant, and which injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.

Defendant answered the petition, setting up the following defenses:

First. It was denied that petitioner’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.

Second. That defendant ivas an interstate…