Boston & M. R. Co. v. McDuffey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United ¡States for the District of Vermont. This ease comes here on writ of error to review a judgment of the circuit court, district of Vermont, rendered in favor of defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, upon the verdict of a jury for ¡55,850, damages, against plaintiff in error, defendant below.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United ¡States for the District of Vermont. This ease comes here on writ of error to review a judgment of the circuit court, district of Vermont, rendered in favor of defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, upon the verdict of a jury for ¡55,850, damages, against plaintiff in error, defendant below. The plaintiffs are the wife and children of .James i>. McDuffey, a locomotive engineer in the employ of defendant, who, while on his engine, was killed by collision with another train of the' defendant, at Oapletou, in the Dominion of Canada. The facts…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, a Massachusetts corporation, operated a continuous line of railroad from White River Junction, in Vermont, to ¡Sherbrooke, in the province of Quebec. McDuffey was a citizen of Vermont, resident at Lyndonville, in that state, where he entered into the employment of defendant, at first as fireman, afterwards as engineer. For about three years lie drove the engine of a freight train between points wholly in (he state of Vermont. In July, 1892, he was, at his own request, employed to drive an engine drawing a passenger train between White River Junction,…
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