Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Ringstaff

HICKS, Circuit Judge. •

Action by appellee, Ringstaff, to recover damages of appellant, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, for personal injuries.

The questions properly preserved and presented by the record are whether the court erred (1) in denying appellant’s motion for a directed verdict; (2) in excluding from the evidence one of appellant’s rules relating to station agents and train conductors; and (3) in declining to submit to the jury a requested instruction relating to contributory negligence.

Appellee was injured between 1 and 2 o’clock p. m. on June 10-, 192-9', when a freight *483train…