James v. Yazoo M.V.R. Co.

The appellant, T. L. James, was employed by the appellee, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, on an application for employment, and while in the employ of the appellee company received an injury to his eye by reason of a cinder striking and lodging in it. At the time of his injury, he had been promoted to the position of engineer, occasionally performing this duty on special runs, but when not acting in this capacity, he would perform the duties of a fireman, and was doing so at the time of the injury.

With the application for employment was an agreement as to hospital department…