Curtis Taylor v. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Curtis Taylor was a freight handler employed by The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. (B & O) on a North River pier. On the night of December 24, 1956, he was helping unload a car float by driving a tractor hauling six “flat trucks” from the float over a gangplank to the pier, and back to the float for reloading. On one of these return journeys, Taylor suffered a back injury, as recounted later in this opinion. On December 26, after he had returned to work, the B & O reported the incident to the Office of the New York Deputy Commissioner of the U. S. Department of Labor…