Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Lumpkins

The defendant (plaintiff in error) is a common carrier, and maintains a service station at Pocahontas, Virginia, where its engines take on coal, water and sand. There were two “hostlers” there, plaintiff’s decedent *178and one J. A. Haley, whose duty it was to supply those things, wipe off and polish the engines, and do such other casual work on them as' might be necessary. J. A. Black was “agent and yard master, a kind of supervisory position,” and had been in charge since 1915. The locomotives served at this yard were engaged in hauling trains in interstate commerce, and so the decedent was…