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TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. GRIFFITH

No. 17385.

265 F.2d 489 (1959)

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. L. H. GRIFFITH, Jr., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 3, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. P. Bickel, D. L. Case, Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Denning Schattman, Spurlock, Schattman & Jacobs, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The appellant attacks the adequacy and fairness of the trial judge's charges to the jury in a personal injury suit brought under the Federal Safety Appliance Act1 and the Federal Employers' Liability Act.2

L. H. Griffith was a brakeman for the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. At 2:30 A.M., March 5, 1954, he was riding a boxcar in a switching operation. His job that night was...

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