Murray v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

I regard the decision in this case as a very serious departure from recognized principles of the law of negligence, which may have an important and injurious effect on the safety of the *406highway. In all three of its major aspects, I must dissent from the deciding opinion.

I do not agree that the court has been vested with the power to sum up the things done by the defendant in discharge of its duty to furnish plaintiff, its employee, a reasonably safe place in which to work, and to affirmatively declare them to be a sufficient compliance with the rule of the ordinarily prudent man, and that…