Alabama G. S. R. v. Carroll
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action by William D. Carroll against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company to recover for personal injuries sustained as an employé. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error in this case was a brakeman on the railroad of plaintiff in error, working on the freight trains of said railroad between Birmingham, Ala., and Meridian, Miss. The contract of employment was made in the state of Alabama, and he started to work, when he commenced, in the state of Alabama, and was to work between Birmingham, Ala., and Meridian, Miss. On the night of the 18th of June. 1890, he started out as a brakeman on a train from Birmingham, Ala., to Meridian, Miss. He was asleep in the caboose of the train in Birmingham before he started, and…
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