Hartley v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Ethel Ladd Hartley, as administratrix of the estate of John Edgar Hartley, deceased, brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., seeking the recovery of damages for the fatal injury sustained by the decedent as a result of being hit by appellee’s locomotive. The appellant alleged that the appellee negligently ordered the decedent to walk •across a slippery platform near a moving train; negligently failed to furnish the decedent with a safe place to work; negligently permitted its locomotives to run in a manner contrary to the…