Derrington v. Southern Railway Co.

This suit was brought by plaintiff, administratrix, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, the petition alleging negligence of the defendant which caused injuries to Arch Derring-ton from which he died in about two hours, and during the interval between the time of the injury and his death caused him to suffer severe conscious physical and mental pain. She recovered judgment for $14,000 in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, and the defendant appealed.

The injury occurred in Tennessee just east of Memphis in what is called the Forest Yards of the defendant, Southern Railway…