Waters v. Guile
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. Action by Merlin E. Guile against Dudley E. Waters and others, receivers of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The Pere Marquette Railroad Company is a railway carrier engaged in interstate and intrastate commerce, its railroad being operated by plaintiffs in error as receivers. While in the latter’s employ as rear brakeman on a freight train running between Plymouth, Mich., and Grand Ledge, Mich., which train carried both intrastate and interstate freight, defendant in error (whom we shall hereafter call plaintiff) received, in the course of switching operations, serious injuries alleged to be due to the negligence of another member of the train crew, and on account of these…
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