Rash v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co
Decision Date | 10 December 1940 |
Docket Number | No. 9058.,9058. |
Citation | 12 S.E.2d 501 |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Parties | RASH . v. NORFOLK & W. RY. CO. |
Syllabus by the Court
1. There can be no recovery in an action brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59, where the evidence shows, as a matter of law, that the employee, with full knowledge of a hazard, created through employer's negligence, and the opportunity to avoid it with safety, nevertheless voluntarily assumed the risk.
2. "Where an employee of a railway company is being transported to his work on a motor car operated on its track which collides with a locomotive operated by the company, negligence in the operation of either the motor car or the locomotive will not justify the recovery of damages for the death of the employee, resulting from such collision, where said employee, with full knowledge of the risk involved in such negligence, voluntarily assumes the same at a time when he could, with safety, have avoided the danger therefrom." Pt. 3 Syl., Rash, Adm'r v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co., 120 W.Va. 540, 200 S.E. 583.
3. An order of this Court upon a question decided by the trial court is final, and the questions involved and adjudicated on a former writ of error generally cannot be reviewed on a second writ of error. Pt. 1 Syl., Pennington v. Gillaspie, 66 W.Va. 643, 66 S.E. 1009, states an exception to this rule.
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County.
Action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act by William Rash, administrator of the estate of Noah Trump, deceased, against the Norfolk & Western Railway Company to recover damages for death of the decedent. To review an adverse judgment, defendant brings error.
Judgment reversed, verdict set aside and new trial awarded.
W. W. Coxe, of Roanoke, Va., Sanders & Day, of Bluefield, and A. W. Reynolds, of Princeton, for plaintiff in error.
Lilly & Lilly, of Charleston, and James S. Kahle, of Bluefield, for defendant in error.
RILEY, President.
William Rash, administrator of the estate of Noah Trump, instituted this action in the Circuit Court of Mercer County under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59, to recover damages for the alleged death of decedent. Defendant prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment against it in the amount of $7,000 based upon a jury verdict.
This action was tried twice. On writ of error to this Court, the judgment rendered on the first trial was reversed, the verdict set aside, and the case remanded for a new trial. See Rash, Adm'r v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co., 120 W.Va. 540, 200 S.E. 583, 584. Except for additional evidence introduced by both plaintiff and defendant, the evidence introduced on the instant trial of this case is substantially the same as that introduced at the first trial.
For convenience that part of the statement of facts contained in the opinion rendered on the first writ of error, which is supported by the instant record, will be stated verbatim as follows:
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