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NEW ORLEANS & N.E.R.R. CO. v. HARRIS

No. 276.

247 U.S. 367 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 535

62 L.Ed. 1167

NEW ORLEANS & NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. v. HARRIS, ADMINISTRATRIX OF HARRIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Blanc Monroe with whom Mr. Monte M. Lemann, Mr. Robert H. Thompson and Mr. L.E. Jeffries were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Thomas G. Fewell and Mr. C.B. Cameron, for defendant in error, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

While employed in interstate commerce by plaintiff in error, a common carrier by railroad then engaging in such commerce, Van Harris a brakeman was run over by the tender of an engine moving in the yard at New Orleans, Louisiana — February 5, 1914. He died within a few minutes without regaining consciousness. Having qualified as administratrix, his mother (defendant in error), charging negligence and...

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