Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Ellzey

Mr. Justice- Stone

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent, a United States deputy marshal, was assigned to guard Merchant, a telegraph lineman employed by petitionér, from violence by strikers. He went with Merchant to repair a telegraph line and while returning with him on a motor car over petitioner’s railroad the car was derailed and respondent injured. Respondent brought the present suit in. the district court for western Louisiana to recover'for his injuries. The trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant, the •petitioner here. The court of appeals for the…