Southern Railway Co. v. Turner

The special demurrers are treated as abandoned, as counsel for the defendant in their brief state that the single question is whether the petition sets forth a cause of action. The Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. § 51) provides in part that every common carrier shall be liable to any person suffering injury while employed by such carrier resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of its employees, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its machinery, track, roadbed, works or other equipment. The question may therefore be further narrowed to…