Harden v. . Railroad

The plaintiff was a brakeman in the service of the Southern Railway Company (lessee of defendant), on a freight train, and was injured in making a coupling between a box-car and the shanty-car "with a link and the oldstyle draw-head." The shanty-car was not equipped with automatic couplers, nor was the train fully equipped with Janney couplers, or other modern self-coupling devices, and the Court charged the jury, citingGreenlee v. Railroad, 122 N.C. 977, 65 Am. St. Rep., 734 — since followed in Troxler v. Railroad, 124 N.C. 189, 70 Am. St. Rep., 580, and other cases — as follows: "If you…