Legal Opinion
Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal R. Of New Orleans v. Welsh
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 8, 1950No. 12783PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLER, Circuit Judge.
Appellee, foreman of a night switch engine crew of Defendant, after giving the engineer a stop signal, went between two freight cars to adjust the couplers, or to open the knuckles, which, according to him, were defective and out of alignment and had caused a failure of the cars to couple upon an impact in the switching operations in which he was engaged. Another member of the crew, unaware of the fact that the foreman was between the cars, gave a signal to the engineer to proceed, with the result that one of the foreman’s arms was crushed so severely as to require…
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