REETZ v. CHICAGO & E. R. CO.

No. 5596.

46 F.2d 50 (1931)

REETZ v. CHICAGO & E. R. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 6, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. J. Gugler, of Galion, Ohio (J. W. McCarron, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellant.

B. D. Holt, of Cleveland, Ohio (Cook, McGowan, Foote, Bushnell & Burgess, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

Before DENISON and HICKS, Circuit Judges, and SIMONS, District Judge.


SIMONS, District Judge.

Appellant's decedent, Gustav T. Reetz, was a freight conductor on appellee's railroad, and as such in charge of a train operating from Huntington, Ind., to Chicago. At a point near Bolivar, Ind., the train parted due to the breaking of couplers and drawbars, this breaking the air line and bringing the train to a stop. Reetz and O'Dier, the brakeman, were at the time in the caboose. The track at this point runs east and west, the train being...

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