Bangor & Aroostook R. v. Jones

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an action of tort brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 USCA §§ 51-59) against the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad *887Company to recover damages for the death of Byron McLaughlin, who was instantly killed on May 23, 1926, while in the defendant’s employment as a light repairman repairing freight cars for it on the repair tracks of the Maine Central Railroad, at a place known as Northern Maine Junction, in the town of Hermon, Me. He left a widow, Yira J. McLaughlin, for whose sole benefit the action is brought. Since his death Mrs. McLaughlin has again…