CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND RY. v. WRIGHT

No. 167.

239 U.S. 548 (1916)

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. v. WRIGHT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 10, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.P. Holmes, with whom Mr. Paul E. Walker was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. George W. Berge, with whom Mr. Halleck F. Rose was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action against a railroad company by personal representatives to recover for the death of their intestate, an employe of the company, resulting from a collision of two locomotives on the company's railroad at Lincoln, Nebraska. One of the locomotives was a switch engine returning to the city from an adjacent transfer track, and the other a road engine...

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