CHESAPEAKE & O. RY. CO. v. BURTON

No. 3127.

50 F.2d 730 (1931)

CHESAPEAKE & O. RY. CO. v. BURTON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

June 17, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. F. Wood, of New York City, and Douglas W. Brown, of Huntington, W. Va. (Fitzpatrick, Brown & Davis, of Huntington, W. Va., on the brief), for appellant.

A. A. Lilly, of Charleston, W. Va. (Lilly, Lilly & Warwick, of Charleston, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff below was injured after he had alighted from a train of the railway company upon the platform at Blue Sulphur, a flag station located about thirteen miles east of Huntington, W. Va. A few of the company's trains stopped at his station upon signal. The building was merely a small shed or covered shelter, approximately six feet wide by twelve feet long, open on the side towards the railroad track. The platform occupied a space between...

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