Moit v. Illinois Cent. R.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit for personal injury. The plaintiff below was a car repairer. He was at work under the trucks removed from one end of a jacked-up box car. While thus engaged, the end of the car fell upon his legs, which extended beyond the tracks. The court below directed a verdict for the railroad company on the ground that there was no proof that its negligence caused the injury.
The evidence below was limited to the plaintiff, George W. Moit, at the time of the accident employed as a car repairer in the shops of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, at Memphis,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Looney v. Metropolitan RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. BarrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. v. South Pork Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1905
- Carnegie Steel Co. v. ByersCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1907
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