Legal Opinion
Owen Johnson v. Erie Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 6, 1956No. 339, Docket 23973PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINCKS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, an employee of the defendant railroad, brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover for a leg injury allegedly sustained when he fell against the sharp edge of a box contained in a mail sack aboard a railway mail car in which he was working. At the time of the alleged accident the plaintiff was working in a mail car sandwiched between two other cars on a spur track on the lower level of the Paterson, New Jersey, station. The fall allegedly resulted from an impact of a locomotive occasioned by the coupling to the trio of ears. The…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Holland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Kathleen Troupe v. Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
- Johnson v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Pacheco v. New York, N. H. & H. R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Edward S. Murray v. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1958
- Universe Tankships, Inc. v. Pyrate Tank Cleaners, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1957
- Owen Johnson v. Erie Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
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