Ensler v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

This is a suit under the Employer’s Liability Act in which plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries caused, as it is alleged, by defendant’s negligence. At the time he received his injuries plaintiff Avas in the employ of defendant at Bismarck, Missouri, as a roundhouse foreman. His duties as such foreman were to inspect, and to repair or cause to be repaired, when in- need of repairs, the engines coming into such roundhouse, if such repairs could be made with the material, tools and appliances furnished by defendant for that purpose at Bismarck: as to cases in which required…