American Locomotive Co. v. Thornton
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Action by Moses L. Thornton against the American Locomotive Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Action by Moses L. Thornton against the American Locomotive Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. The instructions mentioned in the opinion are as follows: “(1) The court instructs the jury that it was the duty of the defendant company to use and exercise reasonable and ordinary care (1) to provide and maintain a reasonably safe place for the plaintiff to do the work which he was employed by the defendant to do; and (2) to exercise a like…
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
This was a civil action instituted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, by Moses E- Thornton (who will be referred to as the plaintiff, such being the position he occupied in the court below), to recover damages for personal injuries which it is alleged he sustained by the negligence of the American Locomotive Company, defendant below.
It is alleged—
“that the defendant owned and operated a branch plant for manufacturing munitions and metal shells, and for that purpose it operated large and powerful machines, and employed thousands…
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