FRANICH v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 15469.

260 F.2d 599 (1958)

John FRANICH, by George Franich, His Guardian, Ad Litem, Appellant, v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

As Amended October 28, 29, 1958.

Rehearing Denied November 25, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Monaghan, Butte, Mont., for appellant.

Weir, Gough & Matson, Edwin S. Booth, Helena, Mont., H. D. Carmichael, Butte, Mont., J. J. Burke, Jr., Helena, Mont., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, DENMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and POPE, Circuit Judge.


DENMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Franich, a minor suing by his guardian ad litem, appeals from a judgment of the District Court in a judge-tried diversity suit removed from a district court of Montana, holding the appellee Railway not liable to him for injuries received while playing in the Railway's siding adjacent to its railway tracks near the city of Butte, Montana.

The injury occurred when Franich, then about five years of age, while walking on parallel...

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