Legal Opinion
Martha C. Reed v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 17, 1955No. 11600_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the application of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act1 and its 1939 amendment.2
The plaintiff was injured when a window in the Thirty-Second Street office building of the Pennsylvania Railroad blew in upon her during a storm. She was at the time engaged in her work for the Pennsylvania. Her job was to serve as custodian of the files of master sheets from which blueprints were made. The subject matter of the blueprints was any part of locomotives, freight cars or other things used in the business of railroading. When an order came from some point on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Second Employers'liability CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Carter v. Carter Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. Nicholas A. StironeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1959
- Reed v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- In the Matter of Sleep Products, Inc., BankruptDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1956
- Martha C. Reed v. Pennsylvania Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1955
- Reed v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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