Williams v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad

1. The negligence upon which the plaintiff predicates his claim for damages is that the engine on which the plaintiff was working was not equipped with handholds for use by the firemen in going from his cab toward the front of his engine in order to light the headlight; that, in the absence of these handholds, there projected from the engine a certain piece of iron upon which was usually placed a light, the top of which was used by the defendant’s servants as a handhold and as a means of moving around in front of the engine for the purpose of lighting the headlight, no handhold being…