St. Louis, S. F. & T. Ry. Co. v. Wilson

Defendant in error W. A. Wilson was a car inspector in the employment of the plaintiff in error, St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway Company. On September 29, 1921, as a part of his duties, he was engaged in inspecting the air and coupling up the air hose in a. string of freight cars on a track in the yards at Sherman. While he was engaged in the work of coupling the air hose on these cars, which required him to go between them, in making up the train other cars were switched onto this track and against this string of cars, causing his foot to be caught between a wheel of one of the cars…