CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RY. CO. v. KUHN

Nos. 34 and 35.

284 U.S. 44 (1931)

CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY CO. v. KUHN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 23, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry Bannon, with whom Mr. David H. Leake was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Homer H. Marshman, with whom Messrs. David F. Anderson and George D. Nye were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

While employed in interstate commerce as a section hand by petitioner, an interstate carrier, (Acts April 22, 1908, 35 Stat. 65; April 5, 1910, c. 143, 36 Stat. 291; U.S. Code, Title 45, c. 2,) William Kuhn suffers serious injury. Thereafter he sued the Company for damages in the Court of Common Pleas, Pike County, Ohio. He alleged that the accident resulted from its negligence in the following matters —...

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