Legal Opinion
Paster v. Pennsylvania R. R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 28, 1930No. 343PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
Paster, the plaintiff, was an assistant yardmaster employed by the defendant in one of its freight yards in Philadelphia. The accident which injured him happened between three and four o’clock in the morning of November 28, 1928, while he was engaged in his work in the yard. He sues under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (45 USCA §§ 51-59). The yard has many tracks leading off a leader, those here important being numbered fifteen, sixteen and seventeen. . A freight train was being made up on these, of which the rear end of some seventeen ears stood on track…
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