New Orleans N.E.R. Co. v. James

The appellee, W. C. James, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Lauderdale county, Mississippi, against the New Orleans & Northeastern Bailroad Company, seeking to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of the negligence of the locomotive engineer in charge of the locomotive on which the appellee was employed as a fireman, and from a verdict and judgment in- favor of the appellee in the sum of ten thousand dollars this appeal was prosecuted.

The declaration alleged in substance that the appellee was engaged in interstate commerce, as a…