Wallace v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

The appellant, James 0. Wallace, sued-the appellee, the St. Lonis-San Francisco Railway Company, under the Federal Employees’ Liability Act, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the appellant while engaged in the performance of his duties as an employee of the defendant on October 26, 1956.

The plaintiff alleged in his declaration that the defendant on that date was engaged in the furtherance of interstate commerce in the movement of freight by rail from -the State of Mississippi to other states; that the plaintiff was. employed as a brakeman on the defendant’s…