Wabash Screen Door Co. v. Black
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 an action to recover damage's for the negligent killing of Milton E. Whitford. It was brought under the Tennessee statute in the local court by the administratrix, and removed on the application of the Wabash Screen Door Company, the defendant below, to the United States Circuit Court for the *723Western District of Tennessee. The trial judge refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant, the case went to the jury, and a verdict and judgment was recovered, which the court below declined to disturb.
At the time of the accident which resulted in his death Milton E.…
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