Panama R. Co. v. Strobel

KING, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error, Strobel, brought suit in the District Court of the Canal Zone against the Panama Railroad Company to recover for injuries received from the derailment of a train upon which he was traveling as a guard, under orders of his superior officers. He was not an employee of the railroad company, but of the United States, and was guarding a coach entirely occupied by convicts, who were being transported on said railroad. The wrecked train was made up of an engine, two refrigerator cars, five second-class passenger coaches, a baggage car, four first-class…