Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Alsop

This was an action on the case, brought in the circuit court of Effingham county by appellee, against appellant, to recover damages consequent on the death of James H. Alsop, who was killed on the night of February 11, 1895, by a train on appellant’s road, where he was employed as a track-walker -and watchman.

The declaration alleges in the first and fourth counts that the deceased was employed by appellant as night watchman, and avers-“that his duty as such night watchman was to go each and every night from one end of a division or section, to-wit, six‘miles long, along defendant’s railroad…