Willis v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

George S. Willis was a signal maintainer of many years’ experience in the employ of the defendant railroad company. On August 25, 1939, he was struck and killed by a moving freight car while at work in the defendant’s classification yard at Enola, Pennsylvania. His executrix brought action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, § 1 et seq., 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq. At the first trial, before Judge Galston, decision upon the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was reserved and the case submitted to the jury, which disagreed. The reserved motion was then denied…