Legal Opinion
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Third-Party v. Erie Avenue Warehouse Co., Third-Party
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 2, 1962No. 13618PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.
This litigation began as a wrongful death action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act by the administratrix of the estate of Edward Day against the Pennsylvania Railroad. While working for the defendant railroad as a brakeman, Day had been crushed to death between a moving train and a wall on the premises of Erie Avenue Warehouse Co., where the railroad serviced a siding. A third-party claim, filed by the railroad, a citizen of Pennsylvania, against Erie, also a citizen of Pennsylvania, under Rule 14, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., broadened the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Perry v. PayneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
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