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

No. 242.

249 U.S. 528 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 369

63 L.Ed. 752

NEW ORLEANS & NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. v. SCARLET.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 21, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Blanc Monroe, with whom Mr. Monte M. Lemann, Mr. Albert S. Bozeman, Mr. L.E. Jeffries, Mr. S.R. Prince and Mr. H. O'B. Cooper were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Thomas G. Fewell, for defendant in error, submitted. Mr. C.B. Cameron was on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

Scarlet was a fireman on the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad. While engaged in the performance of his duties he was injured by being thrown down between the engine and the tender. The accident was caused by the uncoupling of engine and tender; and this was apparently due to the breaking of the king pin, which fastened the draw bar to the tender, and the breaking of the coupling chains between engine...

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