Legal Opinion
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Stapleton
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1929No. 133PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
Plaintiff is a citizen of Kentucky, and at the time of the suit was between 15 and 16 years of age. Marion Stapleton was his father and guardian. The Chesapeake and Ohio Rahway Company is a railway corporation of Virginia, doing an interstate commerce' business in Kentucky. The plaintiff and his father were employed by the defendant as section hands and were engaged in maintaining the railroad and the roadbed for interstate commerce. The plaintiff was directed by his father, who was his foreman, to get water for his companions. In returning with the water he passed between or under the cars'…
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