Erie R. Co. v. Murphy

ARANT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a verdict in favor of appellee, who sued to recover damages resulting from an injury he sustained while unloading a car load of beaverboard, delivered by appellant to appellee’s employer, the Youngstown Pressed Steel Company, of Warren, Ohio.

Appellant received the car under seal from the Great Northern Railroad in Chicago and delivered’ it, sealed, to consignee, on the latter’s side track, which ran into or through its building. When appellee arrived to assist in unloading, enough of the beaverboard had been removed to create a…