B. & O.R.R. v. GOODMAN

No. 58.

275 U.S. 66 (1927)

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. GOODMAN, ADMINISTRATRIX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 31, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A. McL. Marshall, with whom Messrs. Byron B. Harlan, Morison R. Waite, and William A. Eggers were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Robert N. Brumbaugh, with whom Mr. I.L. Jacobson was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by the widow and administratrix of Nathan Goodman against the petitioner for causing his death by running him down at a grade crossing. The defence is that Goodman's own negligence cause the death. At the trial, the defendant asked the Court to direct a verdict for it, but the request, and others looking to the same direction, were refused, and the...

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