District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania September 3, 1958, Civ. A. No. 21934 (Gower v. Chestnut Ridge Railway Co.)

LEAHY, District Judge.

Plaintiff’s decedent, an employee of the Chestnut Ridge Railway Company as a brakeman, was riding a caboose when the car in front jumped the track and in the accident that followed decedent was crushed beneath a Pennsylvania Railroad boxcar and killed. The other defendants are the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and Lehigh and New England Railroad Company.