Freeman v. Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway Co.

Major Freeman, by his next friend, sued the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Oompány for certain injuries alleged to have been sustained because of the railroad’s negligence while he was engaged in loading brick on defendant’s cars. The railroad company had extended a spur-track to the yards of the Rome Brick Company, and placed necessary cars on this spur-track to be loaded with brick. Whenever it was necessary, the car in process of being loaded was temporarily shifted, so as to enable the railroad company to move out the loaded cars and station the empty ones. At the time of…