SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. CROSBY

No. 6518.

201 F.2d 878 (1953)

SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. CROSBY.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney S. Alderman, Washington, D. C. and Frank G. Tompkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., (John Gregg McMaster, Columbia, S. C. and Henry L. Walker, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant.

Henry Hammer and Henry H. Edens, Columbia, S. C. (Chandler & Chandler, Greenville, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant Southern Railway Company from a judgment for plaintiff in an action for damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51. The action was brought by the administratrix of the estate of O. L. Crosby, a brakeman employed by the Southern Railway Company, who was killed in the derailment of a freight train on which he was working. This train was being operated on the line of the Yadkin Railroad...

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