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NORFOLK & W. RY. CO. v. RIGGS

Nos. 7913, 7914.

98 F.2d 612 (1938)

NORFOLK & W. RY. CO. v. RIGGS. RIGGS v. NORFOLK & W. RY. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 29, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Bannon, of Portsmouth, Ohio (Henry Bannon and Louis D. Bannon, both of Portsmouth, Ohio, and John W. Hudson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

Paul R. Brown, of Cleveland, Ohio (Edward M. Ballard, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Fuerst & Brown and Paul R. Brown, all of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for Mary Ellen Riggs.

Before HICKS, ALLEN, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals arise out of a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the decedent's administratrix in an action for wrongful death. The railway company employed the decedent as a brakeman in its freight yards in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. At the time of the accident the decedent was engaged in an operation in intrastate commerce, being on a switch engine on track 25, parallel to and adjoining track 26, on which two cars loaded with scrap...

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