Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. Oliver
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia; Beverly D. Evans, Judge. Action by Edgar J. Oliver, administrator of Bud Hall, against the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff (250 Fed. 652), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action under the federal Employers’ Liability Act by the personal representative of Bud Hall, deceased. The right of the plaintiff (defendant in error here) to maintain the action was resisted on the ground that Bud Hall brought suit against the plaintiff in error for the damages sustained by him in consequence of the injury to which his death was attributed in the pending suit, and recovered judgment, which judgment has been satisfied by payment thereof. The court ruled against that defense.
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