Baltimore & O. R. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Action by the United States against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. There was a judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
In an action for the penalty for violating the Hours of Service Act (34 Stat. p. 1415), the court below directed a verdict in favor of the government, and the railroad company, defendant below, brings error.
The controlling facts are not in dispute. At a small station, named Sandyville, Hoover was the sole railroad employé. The station was open only in the daytime, and Hoover was both agent and telegrapher. In addition, it was his duty to operate, at intervals, a steam pumping engine, so as to keep full the water tank used for supplying engines. *155Customarily this pump was…
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- United States v. Denver & R. G. R.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915
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