PATTERSON v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 73-1076.

489 F.2d 303 (1973)

Christine H. PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals. Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong & Dahling by James M. Baysinger, James Robert Buschmann, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for defendant-appellant.

Charles E. Lampert, David M. Fried, Southfield, Mich., on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before McCREE and MILLER, Circuit Judges, and KRUPANSKY, District Judge.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the liability of a railroad under the Federal Employers Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. Sec. 51 et seq., resulting from a contagious disease contracted by a clerical employee from a fellow employee. Plaintiff-appellee, Christine Patterson, was employed in January, 1966, by defendant-appellant, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, as a stenographer-clerk and was assigned to its...

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