UNION PACIFIC R.R. CO. v. HUXOLL

No. 104.

245 U.S. 535 (1918)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. HUXOLL, ADMINISTRATRIX OF HUXOLL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 21, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. N.H. Loomis and Mr. C.A. Magaw for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Halleck F. Rose, with whom Mr. Walter V. Hoagland, Mr. Wilmer B. Comstock, Mr. John F. Stout and Mr. Arthur R. Wells, were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

Fred J. Huxoll, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the plaintiff in error, was run down by a switching engine, about 11 o'clock in the morning, in a switching yard of the company at a division point in Nebraska, and subsequently died of the injuries which he received.

The weather was very cold, with a high wind blowing and a cloud of steam and smoke, from engines standing nearby the scene of the accident...

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