New Orleans & N. E. R. R. v. Scarlet

83 So. 1, 120 Miss. 665

• Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
• Decided: October 15, 1919
• Docket: No. 19342
• Status: Published

Opinion

Ethridge, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. -

Scarlet, the appellee, was a fireman on the New Orleans & Northeastern Eailroad, and while engaged in the performance of his duties was injured by being thrown down between the engine, and the tender; the fall being caused- by the breaking of a king-pin and safety chain fastening the tender to the engine. Suit was brought in the state court under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Act April 22, 1918, chapter 149, 35 Stat. 65 (U. S. Comp. St. sections 8657-8665). ” There was a recovery by the appellee, and an appeal to this court, in which the cause was affirmed. 115 Miss. 285, 76 So. 265. From this judgment of affirmance the cause was appealed to the United States supreme court, and reversed by that court because the trial court granted an instruction that the prima-facie statute of the state of Mississippi (section 1985, Code of 1906, as amended by chapter 215, Laws of 1912) applied, and because this court on the former hearing held that such instruction was proper. See N. O. & N. E. R. R. Co. v. Scarlet, 249 U. S. 528, 39 Sup. Ct. 369, 63 L. Ed.—; N. O. & N. E. R. R. Co. v. Harris, 247 U. S. 367, 38 Sup. Ct. 535, 62 L. Ed. 1167.

This case was decided in this court prior to the decision of N. O. & N. E. R. R. Co. v. Harris, supra, holding that the state statute did not apply to suits arising under, the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, and prior to the decision of N. O. & N. E. R. R. Co. v. Hanna, 78 So. 953, following said decision. Appellant now moves the court to reverse and remand the cause for a new trial in conformity to the decision of the United States supreme court, which is accordingly done.

Beversed and remanded.