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CORAY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

No. 54.

335 U.S. 520 (1949)

69 S.Ct. 275

93 L.Ed. 208

CORAY, ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATOR, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parnell Black argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Calvin W. Rawlings and Harold E. Wallace.

A.H. Nebeker argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Paul H. Ray and S.J. Quinney.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was brought in a Utah state court under the Federal Safety Appliance and Federal Employers' Liability Acts1 to recover damages for the death of Frank Lucus, an employee of the respondent railroad. The decedent's death occurred when a one-man flat-top motordriven track car crashed into the back end of an eighty-two-car freight train on a main-line track at a point near Lemay...

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