Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Company, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Company

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity case governed by Arkansas law, we are called upon to revisit circumstances similar to those before this court in Anthony v. Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, 316 F.2d 858 (8th Cir.), cert. denied 375 U.S. 830, 84 S.Ct. 74, 11 L.Ed.2d 61 (1963). As in Anthony, a railroad brakeman riding outside a freight car on a spur track struck his head against a loading dock constructed and maintained by an Arkansas lumber company. In both cases, the brakeman sustained severe personal injuries, here loss of an arm when he fell to the ground and rolled under a…