East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad v. Toppins

This is an action under our statutes by Jennie Top-pins, the widow of Geo. W. Toppins, to recover of the Railroad Company damages for injuries causing her husband’s death.

The declaration avers, in substance, that said Toppins was an employee of the company, and that it was his *59duty to inspect the locomotive engines in the repair shop yards, and that while in the line of his duty, in the act of inspecting one of the engines, while the same was being turned on a turn-table, “ by reason of the defective construction and inadequate strength, and also the unskilful management of said turn-table by…