Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railway Co. v. McVay

The only question in this ease is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain tfye finding and judgment of the court below against the appellant. The substance of the evidence is as follows: In 1882, one John Barnett was badly injured and mangled at a tunnel on the line of appellant’s railway. He was removed to a hotel and appellee was employed by a Mr. Seemans, one of appellant’s road-masters, to nurse and care for him. In pursuance of that employment, appellee performed the service for some eighty days. After he had been 'thus employed for some seventy days, he was authoritatively…