Knierim v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad

HAYS, Circuit Judge.

In these actions brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 51 et seq. (1964), appellees sought to recover damages for injuries sustained when two of appellant’s trains, on which appellees were crew members, met in a head-on collision. After a trial before Judge Thomas F. Murphy and a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the court, upon appellees’ motion, directed a verdict against the appellant Railroad on both the issue of appellant’s negligence and the issue of appellees’ contributory negligence. The issue…