United States Director General of Railroads v. Zanzinger
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 John Zanzinger against the United States Director General of Railroads. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
Six tracks of the Norfolk & Western Railroad run along Twenty-Third street in the city of Norfolk, where they intersect at right angles with Parker avenue. On July 6, 1918, plaintiff, a Russian longshoreman, walking along Parker avenue, was struck as he was about to cross the sixth track by a locomotive and lost both legs. He recovered judgment in this action for $17,000.
Conceding that there was evidence from which the jury might find the defendant negligent in failing to comply with' an ordinance of the city of Norfolk requiring the bell of a locomotive to be rung when…
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