Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided May 28, 1958No. Gen. No. 47,260PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an F. E. L. A. case with verdict of not guilty and judgment against plaintiff who has appealed.
On June 14, 1955, at about 3:30 A. M. plaintiff, then a hostler employed by defendant in its Hawthorne Yards near Indianapolis, fell from the side of a locomotive while engaged in the filling of a locomotive sand box. The sand boxes were filled from an overhead trackside container of sand, by means of a flexible rubber and wire hose about sixteen feet long and three inches in diameter. The outlet end of the hose was a ten inch steel…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rogers v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Staver Carriage Co. v. American & British Manufacturing Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1914
3Cited by1 opinion
- Burns v. West Chemical Products, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1973