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Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Davis, 279 U.S. 34 (1929)
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Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Davis, 279 U.S. 34 (1929)
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Davis No. 70 Argued November 23, 1928 Decided February 18, 1929 279 U.S. 34
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
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1. Where a railway employee voluntarily abandons one of several places which are reasonably safe and well adapted to the work in which he was engaged, and assumes and places himself in a position of extreme danger which was neither furnished for the performance of his work nor well adapted thereto, and this negligence on his part is the sole and direct cause of his death, there is no ground upon which liability of the employer, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, may be predicated. P. 39.
2. In an action for wrongful death, brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, if the charge that the death was caused by the negligence of the employer in any respect in which it owed a duty to the decedent is without any substantial support, the jury should be instructed to find for the defendant. P. 39.
150 S.C. 130 reversed.
Certiorari, 276 U.S. 614, to a judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina affirming a judgment recovered by the administrator of a deceased railway employee in an action for wrongful death, brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Davis, 279 U.S. 34 (1929) in 279 U.S. 34 279 U.S. 35. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IF3RGPFAI1DPDPB.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Davis, 279 U.S. 34 (1929), in 279 U.S. 34, page 279 U.S. 35. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IF3RGPFAI1DPDPB.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Davis, 279 U.S. 34 (1929). cited in 1929, 279 U.S. 34, pp.279 U.S. 35. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IF3RGPFAI1DPDPB.
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