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- Title: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. Whitacre
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 04, 1916
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court. Whitacre, a freight train brakeman, while walking through a railroad yard on a dark and foggy night, fell into a water cinder pit and was seriously injured. He brought suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act of April 22, 1908, c. 149, 35 Stat. 65, in a state court and recovered a verdict. Exceptions were taken to certain refusals to rule. The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed the judgment of the court below. 124 Maryland, 411.