PERE MARQUETTE RY. CO. v. HASKINS

No. 6111.

62 F.2d 806 (1933)

PERE MARQUETTE RY. CO. v. HASKINS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 17, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. O. Strawhecker, of Grand Rapids, Mich. (W. K. Williams and John C. Shields, both of Detroit, Mich., and Smith, Searl & Strawhecker, of Grand Rapids, Mich., on the brief), for appellant.

J. M. Dunham, of Grand Rapids, Mich. (Dunham, Taylor & Allaben, Linsey, Shivel & Phelps, L. H. Cully, and John H. Vander Wal, all of Grand Rapids, Mich., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MOORMAN, HICKS, and HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judges.


MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

Haskins was an engineer on a regular passenger train operating between Grand Rapids and New Buffalo, Mich. The track of the railroad company between these points was equipped with an automatic block signal system. On the day Haskins was injured, he stopped his train a short distance south of a small station, Vine, in obedience to a stop signal, and backed up to a telephone booth, where the conductor telephoned the dispatcher at Grand Rapids...

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