Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co. v. Shensky

Shensky sued the railway company for damages for alleged personal injuries. His petition as amended contained three counts. In the first count he alleged: that at the time he was injured he was working as a brakeman on a freight-train of the defendant company which at the time was engaged in interstate commerce; that while endeavoring to uncouple two cars in the train by the direction of the conductor of the train (the plaintiff having to go between the two cars because the coupler between them was defective and he could not uncouple the cars without so doing), his right hand was mashed…