Legal Opinion
George Copeland v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 5, 1961No. 6599_1PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., to recover for injuries alleged to have been suffered through the negligence of a fellow employee. The parties stipulated that the case should be tried to the court without a jury upon the testimony of the plaintiff. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant railroad in which the court found that the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from the unauthorized, “sportive” or “prankish” acts of a fellow employee which were “wholly outside his employment,…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Rogers v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Wilkerson v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- New York Central Railroad Company v. WinfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Erie Railroad Company v. WinfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Gary C. Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
- Stanley F. Taylor v. Burlington Northern Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
- Richard Gallose v. Long Island Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989
- Dennis W. Baker v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1974
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