LüRTON, J. The defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of doing railway construction under contract. It had a contract for the construction of the Tennessee Midland road from Memphis to Jackson. It sublet a portion of the track-laying to a firm of contractors known in the record as Meredith Horton. The plaintiff, while the general servant of defendant, and while acting as a brakeman, was injured in making a coupl…
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