Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Wright
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP NEBRASKA. The facts, which involve the validity of a verdict and judgment under the Employers’ Liability Act, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was an action against a railroad company by personal representatives to recover for the death of their intestate, an employé of the company, resulting from a collision of two locomotives on the company’s railroad at Lincoln, Nebraska. One of the locomotives was a switch engine returning to the city from an adjacent transfer track, and the other a road engine on the way to a distant repair shop. The former was in charge of a switching crew and the latter of an engine crew in which the intestate was the engineer. At the place of the collision the track is in a deep and curved cut which…
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