Rodriguez v. Powell

The amended declaration in this case, to which a demurrer was sustained and final judgment entered for defendant in the court below, shows that plaintiff, Antonio Rodriguez, a minor, was injured upon a freight train of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company by the running of the defendant’s train of cars; that after the injury, which consisted of the loss of one of plaintiff’s legs, a claim agent of the railway company called upon Rodriguez, and being thereunto duly authorized to act for the company, obtained from Rodriguez, in consideration of a promise by the claim agent to pay for certain…