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STOKES v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 5950.

177 F.2d 136 (1949)

STOKES v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Edens, Columbia, S. C. (Henry Hammer, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

W. C. Boyd and R. Beverley Sloan, Columbia, S. C., for appellee.

Before SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Ernest C. Stokes, an employee of Union News Company on the line of the Southern Railway Company, was injured when he fell through the open door of the baggage car of a train. He had agreed, as a condition of his employment, that neither his employer nor the carrier should be liable for any injury sustained by him in the course of his employment through the negligence of either of them; and it was stipulated, in view of this contract, that the carrier was...

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