Howard v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

George W. Howard sued the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for damages for personal injuries under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U. S. C. A., § 51), in the Superior Court of Crisp County. His petition alleged substantially that he was employed in interstate commerce as a yard foreman in charge of switching for the defendant railroad in Cordele; that he was in charge of a switch engine and its engineer and fireman, when he was injured at the crossing of the defendant’s tracks with Second Street in Cordele, at about noon on January 2, 1947; that Second Street runs north and…