West v. Chicago, B. & Q. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. Action by Stella E. West, administratrix of the estate of Henry W. West, deceased, against the Chicago/ Burlington & Quincy Railway Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
The action was for damages on account of .the company’s alleged wrongful causing of West’s death. At the conclusion of the evidence the court directed, a verdict for the company.
West, a freight brakeman on one of the company’s trains, while passing on a stormy night from the engine back over the tops of the box cars to examine the hand brakes in the performance of his duty at the time, stepped from an ordinary box car to a furniture car, and there was struck on the back of the head by the girder of an overhead bridge and killed.
Negligence was charged in the lack of…
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- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. SwearingenSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Dorsey v. Phillips & Colby Construction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
- Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. v. BeckettCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1908
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