New Orleans Great Northern R. Co. v. S.T. Alcus Co.

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] Plaintiff company has alleged in its petition substantially the following facts:

That Langston, a brakeman in the employ of plaintiff, was injured while switching cars on the side track of defendant company's mill near Slidell, La., by having his foot caught between defendant's log ramps or skidways and some part of the locomotive, and that his leg was crushed and had to be amputated. That such injury to said Langston was caused solely by the neglect and…