Legal Opinion
Geraghty v. Lehigh Valley R.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided May 8, 1933PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BYERS, District Judge.
This is a motion to set aside a plaintiff’s verdict, decision having been reserved at the close of the trial on April 10, 1933.
The plaintiff’s intestate lost his life on February 3, 1932, while in the employ of the defendant company (as he had been for eighteen years) as freight conductor; he was engaged in the handling of cars on railroad tracks at the plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company at Maurer, near Perth Amboy, N. J.
The status of those tracks is an essential element of the ease.
The car movement involved was the withdrawal of two empty railroad…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway Co. v. SealeSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. HarringtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Lehigh Valley Railroad v. BarlowSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- McCalmont v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1922
- Ward v. . Erie R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1921
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Geraghty v. Lehigh Valley R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1934