Legal Opinion
New York Cent. R. Co. v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 17, 1933No. 6163PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONS, Circuit Judge.
•This ease involves determination of the proximate eause of an injury to a railway brakeman which followed the failure of a safety appliance. The suit was brought under the Safety Appliance Act (45 USCA § 1 et seq.) and the Employers’ Liability Act (45 USCA §§ 51-59), and from a judgment in favor of "the plaintiff below the defendant railroad appeals; the specific error assigned being the refusal of the court below to grant a peremptory instruction in favor of the defendant. The facts follow:
Brown was a yard brakeman in the employ of the railroad, and on the night of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Wagner v. International Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1921
- Davis v. WolfeSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. ConartySupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Lang v. New York Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- McCalmont v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1922
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