Legal Opinion
Eleanor Ely, Administratrix of the Estate of Elmer L. Ely, Deceased v. Reading Company
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 9, 1970No. 18150PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FORMAN, Circuit Judge.
On December 9, 1963, the late Elmer Ely, accompanying his fellow employee, Benjamin Johnson a signal maintainer, proceeded by truck to Landis Siding, Pennsylvania, where they had been sent by their employer, Reading Company, to cheek a report that an automatic block signal was not operating properly. Landis Siding runs off Reading Company’s three track east-west main line between Palmyra and Hershey, Pennsylvania. After parking the truck on the south side of the main line the two men, both long-time employees of the Railroad, first checked the signal…
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