Nanfito v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Cirino Dimauro, an employee of the defendant company, was struck by an engine of the company and killed iii its yards in Gibson, Nebraska; and the administrator of his estate brings this action to recover damages under the federal employers’ liability act. That act provides for liability "for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.”…