Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Biliter

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Hogan Biliter, while engaged in the performance of his duties as a fireman for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, was killed in a wreck which resulted from subsidence of the roadbed under a stretch of track in the mountains of Pike County. He left surviving him his father and mother, who claimed dependency. On their behalf the instant action was brought by the father as administrator, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, U.S.C.A., Title 45, Section 56, to recover damages for loss of the pecuniary benefits which they reasonably could have expected to have…