Tillman v. Public Belt R. R. Commission

George Tillman, a fifty-nine year old Negro laborer, was run over by a locomotive of the Public Belt Railroad Commission for the City of New Orleans at about eight o'clock, on the night of December 30, 1947, a short distance below the Barracks Street crossing in New Orleans. The locomotive was being operated with its tender end forward and was pulling a string of fourteen freight cars, some empty and some loaded. Tillman's left leg was so badly injured that, at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, it was found necessary that it be amputated just below the knee. He brought this suit against…