St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Sproule

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

In July, 1904, I. F. Sproule was a United States railway postal clerk. His route in the course of his duties lay between Denison, Texas, and Monett, Missouri. On the 13th day of that month, about 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning, a northbound train on which he was riding, engaged in the discharge of his duties, was derailed near a place called Red Fork, in the Indian Territory. The mail car was turned across the track almost at right angles and he received some hurts, on account of which this suit is brought. The allegations of negligence against the defendant were a…