Hadley v. Union Pacific Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment recovered against defendant in an action brought under the federal employers’ liability act, 35 U. S, St. at Large, ch. 119, p. 65. Plaintiff is administrator of the estate of Charles M. Ci’adit, who died March 14, 1913, from injuries received while in the employ of defendant as a railroad brakeman on one of its interstate freight trains. The suit was for the *350benefit of the widow and two surviving children. Deceased received his injuries while in the caboose of his train, when it was run into and wrecked by the engine of another of defendant’s trains.

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