New York, N. H. & H. R. v. Murphy
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut; Julius M. Mayer, Judge. Action by John Murphy, administrator of the estate of Charles J. Murphy, against the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
John Murphy, the plaintiff, a citizen of Vermont, brought this suit under the Employer’s Eiability Act of Congress of April 22, 1908, to recover damages of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, a corporation of Connecticut, for the death of his intestate, Charles J. Murphy, who was also his son.
April 2, 1910, the deceased was flagman of regular freight train 772, and while sitting in the caboose was killed by a rear-end collision with extra wrecking train 413. The complaint charges the defendant *422with negligence in failing to so dispatch the trains as to…
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