Jones v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad

This is an action brought by W. C. Jones against the East Tennessee, Yirginia and Georgia Eailroad Company to recover damages for a personal injury inflicted upon him by his being struck by an engine belonging to the defendant company.

The suit was originally brought in the local state court, but was afterwards removed by the railroad company into the Circuit .Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. On the trial, after considerable testimony had been introduced on both sides, the court gave the jury the following instruction :

“ This case, gentlemen, does not come…