Bennett v. Southern Railway Company

The Federal Employers’ Liability Act, as set forth in U.S.C.A. Yol. 45, sec. 51, provides that every common carrier by railroad, while engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be liable in damages, in case of the death of one of its employees, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of certain enumerated persons, for such death “resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed,…