Altman v. Atlantic Coast Line R.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the plaintiff in error to recover damages for the death of L. E. Altman, which occurred while he was an employee of the defendant in error and acting as a brakeman on a freight train. The death of the deceased was attributed to negligence of his employer in permitting the brakes on a freight car from which deceased was thrown and killed to be in a defective and dangerous condition. Evidence adduced was to the following effect:

When an attempt was made at night to couple the end car on the train on which the deceased was a brakeman to a car on a side…