Louisville N. R. Co. v. Jacobson

On the morning of March 20, 1924, Charles Jacobson, appellee here, as engineer of the appellant railroad company on its Pan-American train, ran into an open switch in the Montgomery yards, colliding with a freight train then at rest on the switch line track, the force of the collision throwing his head against the cab and producing “a bump” on the back of his head. There was no abrasion of the skin, and the swelling gradually disappeared in the course of a week or ten days, and he continued on his run that day and with his work for practically a month thereafter, when he lost his position.

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