Newman v. Southern Railway Co.

This was an action against tbe railway company, brought by tbe administratrix of W. F. Newman, under tbe *71employer’s liability act of Congress of April 22, 1908, to recover damages for the homicide of the intestate. The parts of the petition which are relevant and material to the error complained of in the bill of exceptions alleged in substance as 'follows: The decedent was employed by the defendant as a section foreman. On November 20, 1935, at a point about two miles north of the City of Jackson in Butts County on the defendant’s line, the decedent was killed when a north-bound…