Louisville N. R. Co. v. Morrill

This cause was. submitted to the jury on counts 1 and 2, which are under the federal Employers’ Liability Act (U. S. Comp. St. §§ 8657-8665), and which charge the plaintiff’s injury as due to the negligence of an agent or servant of the defendant in running into or against the plaintiff, thereby throwing or knocking him under a moving train. The tendency of the plaintiff’s evidence is that after he had safely alighted from the train, which was going at the rate of three to five miles per hour, and after it had gotten under the depot shed, and .just before it had come to a stand at the regular…