Legal Opinion
Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 19, 1942No. 4909PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
John Lewis Tiller, a sergeant of police in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, was fatally injured while on duty at 7 P. M. on the evening of March 20, 1940, when he was struck by a railroad car in the Clopton^Yard of the Railroad Company near Richmond, Virginia. Upon the trial of the suit by his *421executor against the Railroad Company for damages for his death under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act of April 22, 1908, as amended by the Act of August 11, 1939, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51, et seq., the District Judge directed a verdict for the defendant upon the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. HortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Aerkfetz v. HumphreysSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Boldt v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Tuttle v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee RailwaySupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Griswold v. GardnerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1946
- Chicago & North Western Railway Company v. Arthur J. RiegerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1964
- Louis D. Anderson v. Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1955
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