Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Owens

Opinion of the 'Court by

Judge McCandless—

Eeversing..

In an action for personal injuries brought under the provision of the Federal Liability Act (45 USCA, secs. 51-59), Cheerful Owens recovered a judgment for $1,500 against the Cincinnati, Few Orleans & Texas Pacific Eailway Company. The company appeals.

Appellee was one of a section crew, numbering about twenty persons, engaged in repairing appellant’s track. At the close of the day’s work on October 4, 1926, the men were carried home on a train of cars thus made up: First, a motor car, with a push car coupled thereto; and, lastly, an ordinary…