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SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. HOBBS

No. 2864.

35 F.2d 298 (1929)

SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. HOBBS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

October 15, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Robinson, of Charlotte, N. C., for appellant.

H. L. Taylor, of Charlotte, N. C. (T. L. Kirkpatrick, of Charlotte, N. C., on the brief), for appellee Hobbs.

E. T. Cansler, of Charlotte, N. C. (Cansler & Cansler, of Charlotte, N. C., on the brief), for appellee Ford Motor Co.

Before PARKER, Circuit Judge, and GRONER and SOPER, District Judges.

GRONER, District Judge.

J. B. Hobbs, the plaintiff below, was employed by the Southern Railway Company as an extra switchman, and was injured on the evening of December 9, 1926, while at work on the top of a freight car then being moved in interstate commerce by the railway company from within the Ford Motor Company's plant at Charlotte, N. C. He sued the railway company and the Ford Company as joint tort-feasors, and at the trial recovered judgment against the railway...

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