Denver & R. G. R. Co. v. Arrighi
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. Arrighi, the plaintiff below, was a switchman in the service of the railroad company in its yards at Salida, Colo. The railroad company was a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce as well as in commerce within the state.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. Arrighi, the plaintiff below, was a switchman in the service of the railroad company in its yards at Salida, Colo. The railroad company was a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce as well as in commerce within the state. On the evening of November 19, 1901, Arrighi was injured while endeavoring to effect a coupling of two narrow-gauge freight cars, one of which was at the time employed in moving interstate traffic. Neither car was equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact. The drawbars of…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
The trial court denied a request of the defendant that the jury be instructed to return a verdict in its favor for the reason that the *348plaintiff was guilty of negligence contributing to his injury. The action of the court in that respect is assigned as error. Prior to the time when the act of Congress became fully operative, the employés of a railroad company subject to its provisions, engaged in coupling cars used in moving interstate traffic, but not equipped with automatic couplers, assumed the ordinary risks and hazards of that employment, and the company was not liable to them for…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. v. McDadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- St. Louis Cordage Co. v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
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- Hampton v. Des Moines & Cent. I. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- Turrittin v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Brannock v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910
- Denver & R. G. R. v. ArrighiCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- Toledo, St. L. & W. R. v. GordonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1909
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