Southern Railway Co. v. Lunsford

Respondent’s intestate, J. M. Cox, driver of the engine on petitioner’s fast train from Birmingham to Atlanta, lost his life when it overturned. As the train moved forty miles per hour over a six degree curve to the left, something, apparently a stone, turned the wheels of the front truck to the right and off the rails. After bumping over the cross ties- for seven-tenths of a mile they struck a switch and the upset followed.

The front or boiler end of the locomotive found support through a rigidly attached center casting rounded to fit, some three or four inches, into another casting made fast…