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72 F.2d 982

Docket No. 3678.

Nutter v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Oct. 2, 1934.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1934-10-02

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1940

4 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on 113 W. Va. 94 - Nutter v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1934-10-02

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¶1David D. Ashworth and Ben H. Ashworth, both of Beckley, W. Va. (W. A. Thornhill, Jr., of Beckley, W. Va., on the brief), for appellant.

¶2C. W. Striekling, of Huntington, W. Va. (Fitzpatrick, Brown & Davis, of Huntington, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before PARKER and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges, and CHESNUT, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an action for wrongful death brought by the administratrix of the little boy who was killed in the distressing accident described in Nutter v. C. & O. Ry. Co., 113 W. Va. 94, 166 S. E. 815. We need' not decide whether the father’s negligence was imputable to the child under the circumstances disclosed, nor whether there was error in admitting evidence tending to show negligence on the part of the father. For the reasons given by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in the ease above cited, which was brought by the administratrix of the father, we think that there was no aetionable negligence on the part of the defendant railway company, and that in this ease, as well as in that, verdict was properly directed in its favor. The judgment appealed from’ will be affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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