District Court, D. Alaska September 24, 1948, No. 5897-A (Pitts v. Pacific & A. Ry. Nav. Co.)

FOLTA, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages for the death of Rex Wade Pitts, which it is alleged was caused by the negligence of defendants, in that, while deceased was traveling over defendants’ railroad in Yukon Territory with a speeder in the performance of his duties as a soldier in the United States Army, the defendants’ dispatcher in Skagway allowed him to proceed beyond a