Gildner v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action by a conductor in its employ, to recover for personal injuries suffered in a switching yard on the night of January 11, 1934. The yard was full of tracks, and the freight train of which the plaintiff was in charge, came in and stopped upon one, called the “passing siding track,” just north of the main, or through, track. The plaintiff’s first duty was to check the new cars which he was to'take on, and to do so he went south across the main track to the tracks of another…