Legal Opinion
Fleming v. Husted
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 27, 1947No. 13562PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
The action is one under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., for negligence in the maintenance of a depot platform. A brakeman sued the trustees in reorganization of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company for injuries received as he was undertaking to alight from a moving freight train onto the depot platform at Van Meter, Iowa, in order to get the “switch list”. He claimed to have caught his foot in a 1% or 2 inch break in the concrete curb, where it had pushed out some inches from the rest of the platform, and to have been…
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3Cited by20 opinions
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