Johnston v. Richmond & Danville Railroad

Atkinson, Justice.

1. In this ease the suit was brought by the plaintiff, he being an employee, against the company, for injuries alleged to have resulted from the negligence of coemployees in and about the running and operating of the same train by which he was himself injured. Such being the case, the trial judge charged the jury that in order to entitle the plaintiff to recover, two things are necessary: first, he must show negligence on the part of the company, or its agents or employees; second, the absence of negligence on his part contributing to the occasion or cause of the injury…