ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. ROBERTSON

No. 6802.

214 F.2d 746 (1954)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al. v. ROBERTSON.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas McKay, Columbia, S. C. (McKay & McKay, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

Joseph L. Neetles, Columbia, S. C. (Thomas, Cain & Neetles, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for Lock Joint Pipe Co. and American Pipe & Construction Co.

Henry Hammer and Henry H. Edens, Columbia, S. C. (Marshall Williams, Orangeburg, S. C., and John H. Dukes, Myrtle Beach, S. C., on brief), for H. L. Robertson.

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


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

H. L. Robertson of Sumter, South Carolina, lost both legs below the knees when he was run over on the morning of June 9, 1952 by a dinkey engine on the premises of the Lock Joint Pipe Company and the American Pipe & Construction Company which they were operating as joint ventures in the manufacture of pipe near Orangeburg, South Carolina for use in the atomic bomb project of the United States. Robertson was an experienced railroad man and...

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