Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Peyton
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Action by Frank Peyton against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
In receiving coal at Newport News, Va., .from the Virginia and West Virginia coal fields, and loading it on vessels, the defendant dumps the coal from an ordinary coal car into a motorcar and raises the loaded motorcar by an elevator to the coal pier. On the pier, which is about 1,200 feet long, are laid two tracks from the elevator to the coal chutes through which vessels are loaded. These tracks cross each other in the form .of an X, and the motor runs on either the north or the south track as the work requires. A large number of men are constantly employed on the pier,…
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