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MOORE v. CHESAPEAKE & O. R. CO.

No. 318.

340 U.S. 573 (1951)

MOORE, ADMINISTRATRIX, v. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued January 10, 1951.

Decided February 26, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. E. Allen argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Meade T. Spicer, Jr. and Strother Hynes argued the cause on the original argument and Mr. Hynes on the reargument for respondent. With them on the brief was Walter Leake.

MR. JUSTICE MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action, brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act1 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of a surviving widow and children, charged negligence against respondent railroad in the death of petitioner's decedent, who was acting in the course of his employment as a brakeman for respondent at the time of his death. The case was...

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