Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Hendrix

Tlie plaintiff, Charles Hendrix, received personal injuries while working in the service of the defendant, and he instituted this suit to recover compensation, alleging that his injuries resulted from negligence on the part of defendant in failing to exercise ordinary care to furnish reasonably safe appliances with which he was required to work. It was alleged in the complaint that the defendant was an interstate carrier of freight and passengers, that the locomotive engine on which plaintiff was working at the time he received his injuries was in use in interstate commerce, and the right of…