Gaddy v. . R. R.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injury.

The plaintiff, together with five others, composed a switching crew on the railroad yards of the defendant's lessee at Spencer, N.C. and on the first day of November, 1915, was switching cars and making up trains on the yard. About the hour of 12:15 o'clock p.m., the crew was working in the north end of the yard shifting cars and making up trains. From the north end of the yard they backed in on the straight lead track, which leads entirely through the yard and extends from Spencer to Salisbury. They coupled up to seven cars on the said…