Barraclough v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.

This is an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (U.S.C.A. 51-59) by plaintiff, as the administratrix of the estate of Lawrence G. Barraclough, Jr., for $20,000 damages for his death while in the employ of defendant as a brakeman in interstate commerce. Plaintiff says also that the Boiler Inspection Act (U.S.C.A. 23) applies but assigns no error on that feature of the case. Barraclough was killed at Harper, Wyoming, November 15, 1922. The negligence charged upon which the case was submitted was that there was a storm curtain over the gangway between the engine and tender which was…