LOUISVILLE & N. R. CO. v. BOTTS

No. 13750.

173 F.2d 164 (1949)

LOUISVILLE & N. R. CO. v. BOTTS.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

March 14, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilton D. Chapman, of St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Roberts P. Elam, of St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

A switchman, employed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, in its Radnor Yards, outside Nashville, Tennessee, lost a leg, when he slipped off a footboard on the front of a moving switch engine, as he was attempting to mount it, and fell onto the track. He brought suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., for damages, charging a violation of the Boiler Inspection Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 22 et...

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