Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Stapleton's Guardian

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Logan

Affirming.

The appellee Tobe Stapleton, while endeavoring to crawl under one of appellant’s freight trains, was run over, sustaining injuries which consisted of a broken leg and the loss of four fingers on his right hand. At the time of the accident he was employed by appellant as a section laborer, and he had been so employed for about nine months. When he was not engaged in carrying water to the other section hands he worked with them on the track. It was a part of his duties to carry water from a spring located across the tracks of appellant, and as…