Legal Opinion
Wallace Woodington v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and S. J. Groves & Sons Co., Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, Eagle, Pennsylvania
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 22, 1956No. 334, Docket 24000PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal by both defendants from a judgment against both in the amount of $297,500 entered after trial before Judge Bicks and a jury. Plaintiff Woodington, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineman, sustained serious injuries when the freight train on which he was then acting as fireman collided with a six-wheel, motor-powered crane weighing more than 24% tons, which stalled on the railroad tracks at the Longs Road grade crossing near King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Plaintiff brought this action against the Pennsylvania Railroad under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act,…
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- Stevenson v. Hearst Consol. Publications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1954
- O'Neill v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
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