Bernard Morant v. Long Island Railroad

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Bernard Morant suffered an on-the-job injury while cleaning the inside of a railroad car parked at a railyard siding. Morant claimed that he fell when a crew moving cars on the same track jarred the ear in which Morant was working. He brought suit against his employer, defendant-appellee the Long Island Railroad (“LIRR”) under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), alleging that the railroad was negligent (inter alia) in failing to employ a warning system — the “blue signal” — that would have warned the crew not to move the ear Morant was in.…