Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Johnston

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves an action for damages for personal injuries suffered by defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as “plaintiff”, in an accident on the main line of plaintiff in error’s railroad, allegedly caused from the latter’s violation of section 2 of one of the Acts Of Congress known as “The Safety Appliance Acts” (27 'Stat. 531; 45 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.).

On the date of the accident, March 16, 1963, plaintiff was a railway train conductor for plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as “defendant”, on said defendant’s freight train designated as “Extra 102…