Lamb v. . R. R. Co.

The action is by an employee engaged in interstate commerce, and on duty at the time of the occurrence, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the alleged negligence of defendant company, chiefly in the sudden, unusual, violent, and negligent stopping of a freight train by defendant company or its agents and employees whereby plaintiff received serious and painful physical injury from which he still suffers, etc.

There was denial of liability on the part of defendant — pleas of contributory negligence, assumption of risk — evidence offered by the parties to sustain their respective…