Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Hawkins

Citations

• 104 Miss. 55
• 61 So. 161

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant. Appliances. Place for work. Locomotive.</p> <p>Where a railroad train was equipped with seventy-five per cent, air pressure, the amount required by the Interstate Commerce rules- and regulations, which rendered the operation of the train reasonably safe, the railroad was not responsible in damages to a brakes-man who attempted to board the pilot of the engine moving at a speed of five miles an hour and who -missed his footing and clung to the pilot and was carried for a short distance and falling was crushed by the engine, where the engineer had immediately made every possible effort to stop the train and save him.</p>