Salisbury v. New York Central Railroad

In an action brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (35 U. S. Stat. at Large, 65, chap. 149, as amd. by 36 id. 291, chap. 143; now United States Code, tit. 45, §§ 51-59) plaintiff has recovered a verdict of $20,000 damages for the death of the intestate. Early in the morning of April 25,1926, a string of eleven cars, which came from the south upon the second track from the east of four tracks running north and south, stopped south of Amherst street in the city of Buffalo, N. Y. A diagonal crossover, running southwesterly and northeasterly, connected the four tracks. About forty…