FORE v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 5978.

178 F.2d 349 (1949)

FORE v. SOUTHERN RY. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Allen, Ashby B. Allen, Richmond, Va., Garland & Carson, Farmville, Va., and Allen, Allen & Allen, Richmond, Va., on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas B. Gay, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and H. Merrill Pasco, Richmond, Va., on the brief for appellee.

Before SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and CHESNUT, District Judge.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

William Fore, plaintiff-appellant, instituted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia a civil action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59, hereinafter called the Act, against the Southern Railway Company, hereinafter called Southern, defendant-appellee. Southern, at the close of plaintiff's evidence and again at the close of all the evidence, moved the Court for a directed...

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