Legal Opinion
Baker v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Decided January 24, 1907No. 48Published
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey was using the tracks of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company from Bound Brook to Berks streets, in the city of Phildelphia, by an arrangement, the exact terms of which did not appear. On the morning of September 9,1905, the plaintiff, Henry K. Baker, an engineer, was in charge of a fast freight of the Central Railroad Company approaching Philadelphia. Upon arriving at Tabor Junction at about 3:34 o’clock on the morning of that day, the train was stopped by the display of a red danger signal in the tower, manned by an employe of…
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