Grand Trunk Ry. Co. of Canada v. Knapp
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. Action by Albert E. Knapp against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Defendant is a railway carrier engaged in interstate and intrastate commerce. Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a bridge carpenter; while such employé, and while as such a member of a crew in charge of a work train, on which was a pile driver, service water tank, etc., on the way to repair defendant’s railway bridge used by defendant for the passage thereover of trains both in interstate and intrastate commerce, plaintiff, without negligence on his part, received serious injuries through a collision (occasioned by defendant’s negligence) between defendant’s freight…
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