Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Burns

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a suit by Van Burns against Railway Express Agency, Inc.; Dewey Hardin, an cmp.oyee of Railway Express Agency, Inc.; and Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, to recover damages for injuries claimed to have been suffered by plaintiff at the railway station in Decatur, Alabama, which injuries plaintiff averred proximately resulted from the negligence of defendants in causing or allowing a heavy object to strike him, which object was then and there being unloaded from an express car of the train of the railroad company.

The jury returned a verdict against the defendant…