Stidham v. Southern Railway Company

This is an appeal from a judgment based upon a jury verdict of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, at law. The plaintiff, appellant here, claimed damages of defendant, appellee, for personal injuries *154alleged to have been sustained while in the latter’s employ. The suit was based upon an alleged infraction of the Federal Safety Appliance Act.

Plaintiff was a switchman in the employment of the defendant railroad corporation and had been such for about eleven years. On the night of January 25, 1952, he was working as a field switchman on the shift beginning at midnight and ending at 8:00 A.M.,…