Central Vermont Railway Co. v. White
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF VERMONT. The facts, which involve the validity of a judgment for damages for personal injury in ah action under the Employers’ Liability Act, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
delivered the opinión of the court.
1. On January 12, 1912, Enoch L. White was killed in a rear end collision while employed as brakeman on the Vermont Central, an interstate Railway. His Administratrix sued the Company, in a Vermont court, for “the benefit of the widow and next of kin, minor children.” The jury returned a verdict of $7,168. The judgment thereon was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State (87 Vermont, 330) and the case was brought here on a record containing so many assignments, covering 18 printed pages, as to make it proper to repeat the ruling in Phillips v. Seymour, 91…
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