Simpson v. Southern Railway Co.

This action was brought to recover damages for an injury to tbe plaintiff, alleged to bave been caused by tbe defendant’s negligence. Plaintiff and two other employees bad been engaged in loading a flat car, which was attached to a “material or work train,” with ties taken from an abandoned section of tbe defendant’s road. Tbe ties were piled at each end of tbe car and toward tbe middle, where a vacant space was left. Tbe train was moved out and onto tbe main track, where tbe bands were ordered to level tbe ties by placing some of them in tbe middle of tbe car. Tbe plaintiff and tbe two other…