Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. Davis

Charles W. Davis, the plaintiff, a railway postal clerk employed by the United States Government, was injured on December 18th, 1924, while assisting in closing a defective door of a railway mail car, Ho. 137, belonging to the defendant, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He was substituting for another postal clerk, named Carrico, who, while working; on this car the night before, had taken cold because he could not close one of the doors, of the car. Plaintiff testified that he was in sole charge of the car and had a run out of Washington on the afternoon of December 18th; that the ear…