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ERIE RAILROAD CO. v. SOLOMON

No. 559.

237 U.S. 427 (1915)

35 S.Ct. 648

59 L.Ed. 1033

ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY v. SOLOMON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leroy Manchester, with whom Mr. C.D. Hine was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Emil J. Anderson for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Solomon, the defendant in error, sued to recover for personal injuries suffered by him while he was working as a brakeman on a switch engine in the yard of the defendant company at Youngstown, Ohio. The negligence charged was that the tender of the engine had a defective coupler in that the knuckle and pin on the same could not be worked without going between the cars and that the draw-bar had so much side...

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