St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Kelton

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

The appellee brought this suit against the appellant to recover damages for injuries received by him in a collision on appellant’s railroad. On September 7, 1900, while the appellee was in the employment of the appellant as a locomotive engineer on one of its passenger trains, a switch was left open through the negligence of a brakeman, also in the employ of the appellant, and a train which appellee was in charge of ran into the switch and collided with the head of a freight train, which had been side-tracked for the purpose of letting the passenger train pass, and…