Don Nivens v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

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• holding that railroad had duty to inspect and discover defects on tracks it leased from a third-party
• holding that a third-party's failure to maintain tracks in accordance with its lease with a railroad would not defeat plaintiff's FELA claim against railroad resulting from unsafe tracks
• upholding trial court's agency instruction, which stated that railroad would be liable for third-party's negligent design of railway because the tracks were used \for [the railroad's] benefit and in furtherance of its operational activities\

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