Pitcairn v. Hunault

BRIGGLE, District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the District Court for $8,000 rendered against the receivers of the Wabash Railway Company in a suit brought by Alphonse Hunault under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq.). The suit arose over a personal injury suffered by the appellee while employed in the railway yards of the receivers in Wayne county, Mich., on March 17, 1934. The crew was engaged in switching cars down a slight gravity track, known as the lead, onto tracks numbered 3 to 10- — more particularly at the time in question onto track No. 7.…