It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation knowingly and willfully to use or operate any car or locomotive that is defective, or any car or locomotive upon which the machinery or attachments thereto belonging are in any manner defective, or shops or machinery and attachments thereof which are in any manner defective, which defects might have been previously ascertained by ordinary care and diligence by said corporation.
If the employe [employee] of any such corporation shall receive any injury by reason of such defect in any car or locomotive or machinery or attachments thereto belonging, or shops or machinery and attachments thereof, owned and operated, or being run and operated by such corporation, through no fault of his own, such corporation shall be liable for such injury, and upon proof of the same in an action brought by such employe [employee] or his legal representatives, in any court of proper jurisdiction, against such railroad corporation for damages on account of such injury so received, shall be entitled to recover against such corporation any sum commensurate with the injuries sustained: provided, that it shall be the duty of all the employes [employees] of railroad corporations to promptly report all defects coming to their knowledge in any such car or locomotive or shops or machinery and attachments thereof to the proper officer or agent of such corporation and after such report the doctrine of contributory negligence shall not apply to such employe [employee].
History: Laws 1893, ch. 28, § 2; C.L. 1897, § 3217; Code 1915, § 1824; C.S. 1929, § 36-105; 1941 Comp., § 74-324; 1953 Comp., § 69-3-26.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For compensation for injury or death of railroad employees, see N.M. Const., art. XX, § 16.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Defect in appliance or equipment as proximate cause of injury to railroad employee in repair or investigation thereof, 30 A.L.R.2d 1192.
Duty of railroad company to prevent injury of employee due to surface of yard, 57 A.L.R.2d 493.
Momentary forgetfulness of danger as contributory negligence, 74 A.L.R.2d 950.
Excessiveness or adequacy of award of damages for personal injury or death in actions under Federal Employers' Liability Act (45 USCS § 51 et seq.) - modern cases, 97 A.L.R. Fed. 189.
74 C.J.S. Railroads §§ 356, 424, 426.
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