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TOWNLEY v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 88-2882.

887 F.2d 498 (1989)

Basy Thomas TOWNLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY; Norfolk Southern Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 19, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger John Greezicki (Irving Schwartzman, Savage & Schwartzman, P.A., Baltimore, Md., David T. Kennedy, Thornhill, Kennedy & Vaughan, Beckley, W.Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Wade Thomas Watson (Sanders, Watson & White, Bluefield, W.Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WIDENER, PHILLIPS, and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This case comes to us on appeal from the district court's judgment on a directed verdict in favor of the defendants. The plaintiff-appellant, Basy Townley, sued Norfolk & Western under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 51, et seq., for injuries resulting from his work as a yard brakeman at the defendants' Bluefield, W.Va., Yard from 1948 to 1979. Townley suffers from pneumoconiosis, more commonly referred to as...

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