O'Brien v. Las Vegas & T. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nevada. Action by William O’Brien against the Das Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was the plaintiff in the court below in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while he was in the employment of the defendant as a carpenter on the defendant’s railroad. The jury found for the defendant. The plaintiff testified that he was proceeding on a gasoline motor section car to his place of work; that the motor car was defective, in that the drain cock of the gasoline tank was defective, worn, and out of repair, so that it permitted gasoline from the tank to escape and fall upon the heated portions of the machinery of…
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- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. JohnsonTexas Supreme Court · 1892
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