Legal Opinion
Affolder v. New York, C. & St. LR Co.
District Court, E.D. Missouri
Decided July 28, 1948No. 5773PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
79 F.Supp. 365 (1948)
AFFOLDER
v.
NEW YORK, C. & ST. L. R. CO.
No. 5773.
District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.
July 28, 1948.
Mark D. Eagleton, of St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiff.
Jones, Hocker, Gladney & Grand and Lon Hocker, Jr., all of St. Louis, Mo., for defendant.
HULEN, District Judge.
Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a switchman in its yards in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the night of September 24, 1947 defendant was engaged in a switching operation of freight cars. Two of the cars failed to couple automatically by impact, with the result that part of the cut of cars farthest from the engine, by…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Wagner v. International Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1921
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. LaytonSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Davis v. WolfeSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. MoserSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Southern Pac. Co. v. GuthrieCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1951
- Dennis W. Baker v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1974
- NEW YORK, C. & ST. L. R. CO. v. AffolderCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1949
- Lewis v. ScottWashington Supreme Court · 1959
- Snyder v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1953
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