Legal Opinion
Decubas v. Norfolk Southern Corp.
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided April 1, 1988No. Civ. A. 88-18-VAL (WDO)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
OWENS, Chief Judge.
J.D. Decubas died in a crossing collision with defendants’ train near Colon, Georgia on June 6, 1983. Decubas was an employee of General Electric Company assigned by General Electric to maintain microwave tower facilities on Southern Railway under a maintenance contract agreed upon by General Electric and Southern.
This now removed action was brought in the Superior Court of Clinch County, Georgia on June 4, 1986, by complaint containing two alternative counts:
Count I claimed that Decubas was an employee of the defendant railroads under the provisions of the Federal…
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