(Download) "Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. v. Riggs" by United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. v. Riggs
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 29, 1938
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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These appeals arise out of a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the decedents administratrix in an action for wrongful death. The railway company employed the decedent as a brakeman in its freight yards in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. At the time of the accident the decedent was engaged in an operation in intrastate commerce, being on a switch engine on track 25, parallel to and adjoining track 26, on which two cars loaded with scrap iron were standing. The conductor stepped on the running board of the engine between the tender and a gondola car, and was followed by decedent. The engine backed for approximately two car lengths to a point nearly opposite the cars loaded with scrap iron, and came into contact with a large piece of scrap of the same kink and that loaded on the cars, approximately eighteen inches wide, five feet in length, and weighing more than two hundred pounds. As the engine moved slowly along, the scrap metal struck the journal box on the gondola car and was thrust up between the gondola car and the tender, impaling the decedent against it, cutting off his legs, and causing his death.
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