Rowe v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.

Plaintiff was employed by defendant railroad company as a brakeman. While acting in that capacity as front or head brakeman on one of defendant's freight trains enroute from Kansas City, Missouri, to Parsons, Kansas, and points in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, he sustained an injury to his right eye which resulted in the loss and removal of that eye and a "sympathetic" impairment in the vision of the left eye whereby the vision in that eye was reduced to one-fifth of normal with a permanent, progressive condition existing indicative of an ultimate complete loss of vision. Plaintiff brought this…