Casson v. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

The defendant appealed from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury awarding to the plaintiff, its employee, damages alleged to have been sustained in rescuing a fellow employee from imminent peril.

The appellant was engaged in transporting passengers and freight in interstate commerce between points in the state of California and eastern terminals, and maintained a system of signals which were operated by wires suspended upon poles along its right of way. One Walter P. Springs, a lineman of the defendant company, was injured while working at the top of a pole. Casson, also a lineman,…