Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Saxon

While employed ,as head brakeman by petitioner Railway Company and engaged in interstate commerce, J. W. Moore sustained fatal injuries at a New Mexico station. His personal representative obtained a judgment for damages, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, in a Texas court.

The Court of Civil Appeals at El Paso reversed this, holding that the evidence failed to show the accident resulted from the carrier’s negligence. ' The Supreme Court, granted a writ of error, reversed the Court of Civil Appeals and affirmed the original judgment. It concluded that, viewing all the evidence, there…