Wolf v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

During a snow storm so violent that, according to some of the testimony, semaphores on defendant’s right of way were invisible from a train, plaintiff’s intestate, a locomotive engineer employed by defendant, drove bis passenger train past one of these signals into a block occupied by defendant’s freight train headed in the same direction but then stationary and, due to a collision between these trains, he was killed. This action is brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (35 Stat. 65,66) and the principal issues relate to negligence by decedent, negligence by defendant,…