New York, N.H. & H. R. Co. v. Henagan, 364 U.S. 441 (1960)

Name: New York, N.H. & H. R. Co. v. Henagan, 364 U.S. 441 (1960) - Syllabus
Author: U.S. Supreme Court

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. v. Henagan

No. 38

Argued November 8, 1960
Decided November 21, 1960
364 U.S. 441

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

Syllabus

In this suit against a railroad under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act by a waitress in the grill car of one of the railroad’s trains to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained when an emergency application of the brakes brought the train to a sudden stop, held: the proofs were insufficient to submit to the jury the question whether employer negligence played a part in the emergency application of the brakes which allegedly produced the injury.

272 F.2d 153, reversed.

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