Hines v. Walls

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellee and plaintiff below, Mack "Walls, was a man about forty years of age at the time he testified and for more than twenty years had worked for the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company as a section hand, but on the 12th day of June, 1919, at the time he sustained the injuries for which he sues, the railroad was operated by Walker D. Plines, Director General of Railroads, the Federal government having taken charge of it under the Federal Control Act. At about 7 o’clock p. m. on the day mentioned plaintiff and his crew…