Union Pac. R. v. Whitney
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. Action by George W. Whitney against the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
George W. Whitney, the defendant in error, who will be called the plaintiff, recovered judgment in the Circuit Court against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, which will be called the defendant, for personal injuries to himself, alleged to *786have been caused by the negligence of the Railroad Company, tó reverse which the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
The plaintiff was employed as a United States postal or mail clerk in a mail car in use.upon defendant’s road in Wyoming for carrying the United States mails,- and was, on May 3, 1907, injured by the falling of a…
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