JOHNSON v. LOUISVILLE & N. R. Co.

6 Div. 138.

52 So.2d 196 (1951)

JOHNSON v. LOUISVILLE & N. R. Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hare & Parsons and R. Clifford Fulford, all of Birmingham, for appellant.

Chas. H. Eyster, of Decatur, and Gibson & Gibson, of Birmingham, for appellee.


FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit for personal injuries by appellant against appellee under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, as amended August 11, 1939, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant, from which plaintiff appealed to this Court.

The evidence which should be mentioned, material to the question of law presented, is that plaintiff (a fifty-two year old Negro man) was employed by defendant as a common laborer to...

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