Bauchspies v. Central Railroad of New Jersey

Per Curiam,

Frank O. Bauchspies was employed by defendant railroad company as a maintenance man at one of its interlocking electric plants, located near a point where defendant’s tracks crossed at grade those of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. It was Bauchspies’s duty to take care of the switches and signals at this crossing and of the batteries and other motive power equipment which operated them. While in the course of his employment, Bauchspies fell into the Lehigh River, close to the interlocking plant, and was drowned. Plaintiff, the deceased’s widow, filed a claim for compensation…