Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Beatrice A. Anderson, as Administratrix of the Estate of Charles Arthur Anderson, Jr., Deceased

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought in two counts, one under the Safety Appliance Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 11, the other under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-60, the suit was for damages resulting from the death of plaintiff’s decedent.

The first count charged failure to provide sufficient hand brakes. The claim of the second count was in substance that while plaintiff, as the conductor of a train crew, was engaged in directing and conducting a switching operation, he was, as a result of the negligence1 of defendant, its agents and servants, caught and crushed to death between…