Martin v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injury sustained by plaintiff while employed by defendant as a locomotive engineer on one of defendant’s interstate freight trains running between Amory, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee. A violation of the Federal Safety Appliance Act and common-law negligence are both invoked as grounds for recovery.

The casualty giving rise to this controversy occurred about seven o’clock in the morning of March 5, 1925, at Waites, Mississippi. The freight train in question was being drawn by two locomotives, or was in common parlance a double-header, and…