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ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. COLLINS

No. 7218.

235 F.2d 805 (1956)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. M. E. COLLINS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas McKay and Julius Walker McKay, Columbia, S. C. (E. Ellison Walker, and McKay, McKay, Black & Walker, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

Thomas J. Lewis, Atlanta, Ga., and R. K. Wise, Columbia, S. C. (Thomas J. Lewis, Jr., and Lewis & Lewis, Atlanta, Ga., on brief), for appellee.

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

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq. was brought by M. E. Collins, a switchman in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, to recover damages for injuries to his back which he suffered while throwing a switch on the evening of September 27, 1954, in the railroad yard at Florence, South Carolina. He experienced a sharp pain in his back, fell to the ground, and was taken to a hospital...

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