Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Baldwin
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM HAMILTON. Appeal froml the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, —M. M. Allison, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shields
delivered tie opinion of tie Court.
Tie defendant in error, L. Baldwin, a brakeman in tie employ of tie plaintiff in error, while attempting to make a coupling in the operation of one of its trains, through the negligence Of Edgar Fuller, conductor in charge of the train in prematurely signaling the engineer to back his engine and a car attached for the purpose of making a coupling, had his arm caught between the bumpers of the cars to be coupled, and crushed, and brought this suit to recover the.damages sustained by him, and recovered judgment.
The contention of the plaintiff in error is that…
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