Legal Opinion
McCarthy v. Pennsylvania R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 7, 1946No. 8830PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINTON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff’s decedent, McCarthy, was an engineer on the defendant’s railroad. The train upon which the decedent was engineer was a passenger train running be*879tween Valparaiso, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois. On September 16, 1941, the decedent, as engineer, took his run out of Valparaiso, and when he arrived at Indiana Harbor, a distance of twenty-three miles, the pony trucks on the right side of the engine developed a hot box. At Indiana Harbor, the decedent oiled the packing in this hot box. The tower operator at this station observed the hot box and telephoned that…
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