Legal Opinion
Louisville & NR Co. v. Botts
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 14, 1949No. 13750PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN SEN, Circuit Judge.
A switchman, employed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, in its Radnor Yards, outside Nashville, Tennessee, lost a leg, when he slipped off a foot-board on the front of a moving switch engine, as he was attempting to mount it, and fell onto the track. He brought suit under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., for damages, charging a violation of the Boiler Inspection Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 22 et seq. A jury found that the accident was due to a violation of the Boiler Inspection Act and returned a verdict for the employee. The…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Lavender v. KurnSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Wilkerson v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by36 opinions
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- St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. FergusonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1950
- Jerry J. Calabritto v. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- Lester D. King v. Southern Pacific Transportation CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1988
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