St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Rogers

Appellee brought suit under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages on account of the alleged negligent killing of E. L. Eogers, while employed as a brakeman by the appellant railroad company, on the night of September 6, 1921.

Eogers was the head brakeman on a” freight train running from Stuttgart to Jonesboro, and his train had been ordered to take the passing track about one mile north of Stuttgart for the purpose of giving the right-of-way to a passenger train. Eogers was last seen alive by the engineer of the train, swinging on the ladder of a boxcar about five-lengths…