Larson v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

BARRETT, C.

Laurel C. Larson, a government postal clerk, was injured when a mail pouch struck him in the face as he picked up the pouch from-a fast moving passenger train with a mail catcher arm at Las Animas, Colorado. To recover damages for his resulting injuries he instituted this action against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company whose duty w’as to furnish the mail car and its appliances. The plaintiff’s right to recover was submitted upon the hypothesis of a defective mail catcher ápplianee in that the horizontal bar across the doorway was bent downward. The specific…