Baker v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

* NOTE: Opinion filed at October Term, 1930, March 31, 1931; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at April Term, May 31, 1931. Action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff on September 16, 1926, while he was employed as a laborer by the defendant railroad carrier and was engaged in interstate commerce, and which injuries are alleged to have proximately and directly resulted from the negligence and carelessness of the defendant railroad carrier and its foreman, the defendant, Grant Marsh.

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