Payne v. Coleman

There are 16 assignments of error, raising many questions of law, involving constructions of the acts of Congress taking over the railroads and orders issued by the President of the United States and the Director General of Railroads, which under our view of this case, as presented by the record, are unnecessary of decision, and therefore we do not pass upon them.

The.plaintiff was injured while acting in the line and scope of his employment as a laborer on one of defendant’s work trains early in August, 1919. On August 12, 1919, he signed, in the presence of three witnesses, an instrument in…