Director General of Railroads v. Brandies

-A writ of error was taken to a judgment awarding to Brandies damages for personal injuries received by falling from a step-ladder he was using in working on top of a railroad car in the repair yard of the defendant below.

As the injury was not caused “by the running of the locomotives, or cars or other machinery of ” a railroad company, Sec. 4964, Rev. Gen. Stats. 1920, is not applicable. If the provisions of Chapter 6521, Acts of 1913, Section 4971 et seq. Rev. Gen. Stats, are applicable upon the theory that at the time of his injury the plaintiff was employed in “railroading,” it was not…