Legal Opinion
Hatch v. Portland Terminal Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided November 27, 1925PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
Personal injury action. Counts at commom law as aided by the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Maine, and count under the legislation of the Congress of the United States commonly known as the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (R. 3S., Maine, Chap. 50 and amendments; 35 U. S. Stat. at L., 65, Chap. 149). Plea general issue with brief statement: (1) the Federal act governs the case; (2) the risk assumed contractually; (3) plaintiff’s contributing negligence.
The trial presiding judge overruled the motion, advanced as evincible in all the evidence, to direct verdict for the defendant, and refused the…
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