Unadilla Valley Railway Co. v. Caldine

Harold E. Caldine, an employee on the petitioner’s.railroad, was killed in a collision and his administrator brought this action. The case is within the Federal Employers’ Liability Act and the only question before us is whether the death resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the employees of' the carrier, within the meaning of the Act. Act of April 22,1908, c. 149, § 1; 35 Stat. 65. Code, Title 45, § 51.

Caldine was conductor of train'No. 2'upon a single track that passed through Bridgewater. He had printed orders that his train was to pass train No. 15 in Bridge-water…