Hogan v. New York Cent. & H. R. R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for the Western District of New York to review a judgment entered in that court, on, June 15, 1914, upon the direction of a verdict by the court in favor of the defendant and against the plaintiff upon the merits and for the sum of $106.41 costs.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for the Western District of New York to review a judgment entered in that court, on, June 15, 1914, upon the direction of a verdict by the court in favor of the defendant and against the plaintiff upon the merits and for the sum of $106.41 costs. The plaintiff first brought her action in the proper court of the state of New York. The action in that court was brought under the state Employers’ Liability Act, and plaintiff obtained…
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought under the Federal Kmployers’ Liability Act of April 22, 1908, c. 149, 35 Slat. 65, as amended April 5, 1910,, c. 143, 36 Stat. 291 (Comp. St. 1913, §§ 8657, 8665). The plaintiff is the administrator of Frank Hogan, who died from an injury sustained while in defendant’s service. He was employed by defendant as an engineer and hostler upon its railroad, and it is alleged and not denied that at the time be met his death be was engaged in interstate commerce, as he was making ready an engine which was to draw a freight train from Rochester, N. Y., to…
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