Southern Railway Co. v. Ray

This was a suit for damages against a railway company engaged in interstate commerce. The petition alleged, that petitioner was a brakeman on one of the trains of the defendant company; that his duty at the time and place required him to climb over and between the cars of the train, cool off hot boxes, and generally to look over and inspect said train and see that no “brake rigging” was down and that said train was in good order; that at the time of the accident the petitioner, after having cooled the hot boxes on said train, climbed up the ladder of one car for the purpose of crossing said…