Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co. v. Eisenhart
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Action by Samuel D. Eisenhart against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODDEY, Circuit Judge.
The cars of a freight train were being distributed to several tracks in the yards of the defendant at East Penn, Pennsylvania. Eisenhart, the conductor, was riding on a draft of two cars which had been cut from the train and kicked to a siding. His task was to stop them at their destination. While these cars were still in motion the train parted by reason of the opening of couplers and another draft of cars broke away and, following down on the same track without a brakeman, collided with the car on which Eisenhart was riding, throwing him to the ground and causing him…
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