HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, § 1, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51, the suit was for damages suffered by the plaintiff as a result of being thrown from a freight car on which he was working as a switchman.
The claim was that, through the fault of the engineer, the cut of some thirty-nine cars was given an unusually violent, unnecessary, and unexpected jerk in a manner causing plaintiff to be precipitated to the ground...
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