Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Coulton

The present suit was brought under the act “to define the liabilities of the employers of workmen,” approved February 12, 1885. — Sess. Acts, 115; Code of 1886, §§ 2590 etseq. The plaintiff was serving the defendant corporation in the capacity of brakeman on one of its trains, and complains that, while performing his duty, and in obedience to a proper signal therefor, “in attempting to apply one of the brakes on said train, as it was his duty to do, by reason of the weak and defective condition of said brake, and of the appliances thereto belonging, he was violently thrown down, upon or…