Firment v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
On Motion to Set Aside Verdict and for a New Trial.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Joseph Firment, had been in the employ of the defendant about 18 years, and had every appearance, of being an honest and reliable man. He was evidently not an educated man and spoke broken English, and there was some difficulty, at times, in getting at his exact meaning. On the 3d day of Decembey 1905, Sunday, the plaintiff, as he claims, was working in and about the boiler house at shaft or slope 7 of defendant at Horatio, Pa., concededly in the employ of defendant at the time, although it was denied he was working on the day in question, or that it was his…
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- Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. JarviCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1892
- Union Pacific Railway Co. v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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