MARTIN, Circuit Judge.
In this action, brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S. C.A. § 51 et seq., for damages for death by wrongful act, the district judge directed a verdict against the administratrix of the decedent, who met his death while in the employ of the appellee company.
Decedent, a colored porter, was engaged in his duty of washing a window in the railroad station at Chattanooga when a straight ladder, upon which he was...
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