Pruitt v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

*206This action was instituted by the appellant, J. W. Pruitt, against the appellee, Norfolk & Western Ry. Co., to recover damages for the loss of one of his feet, which he averred was the result of negligence upon the part of the railway company. Pruitt was a section hand at the time of the injury suffered by him, and was engaged, together with others, under the directions of a section foreman, in repairing the track of a switch of the railway company near West Ironton, Ohio. The switch was used by the railway company in transporting materials to and…