Smith v. Illinois Cent. R.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge. Action at law by Gilman P. Smith, administrator of the estate of Claude H. Beever, deceased, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff’s intestate, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, received fatal injuries in defendants’ railroad yard, apparently from being struck by a locomotive engine alleged to have been negligently driven by a hostler in the employ of that company. On the trial of the suit brought therefor, verdict was directed for defendant. The assignments of error involve only the propriety of such direction.
The only human testimony throwing any light upon the circumstances of the accident is that of decedent’s fireman, who saw decedent leave…
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