Jenkins v. Wabash Railway Co.

— This is an action for damages brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act against the Wabash Railway Company and Arthur Lovell, its section foreman, on account of fatal injuries sustained by Wilbur F. Jenkins while in the company’s employ as a section man under Lovell and while being transported from one place of work -to another upon one of the company’s gasoline motor cars operated by LovelL

The petition was in two counts. The answer consisted of a general denial and pleas that decedent’s injuries were directly caused by his own negligence and that he assumed the risk. At the close…