Williams v. Southern Railway Co.

Appellee, John Williams, sued the Southern Bailway Company, a corporation, appellant, in an action on the case in the city court of East St. Louis to recover damages for personal injury. ' The declaration alleged that appellee was employed by appellant as a section hand on one of the main lines of its railroad track, which extends through a part of the City of East St. Louis, through the States of Illinois, Indiana, and other States in the Union; that on May 2, 1928, the day on which appellee received his injury, appellee was engaged in interstate commerce as a common carrier by railroad…