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· 2/26/1988

Connie M. Grogg v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., a Corporation Brant Lee Bobbitt Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Of Fort Smith, a Limited Partnership

Citations

  • 841 F.2d 210
  • 24 Fed. R. Serv. 928
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 2396
  • 1988 WL 13478

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  • holding that to prove train equipment yiolated the FSAA, the plaintiff could show evidence of either “some particular defect,” or “a failure to function, when operated with due care, in the normal, natural, and usual manner”
  • proving violation of FSAA permits recovery under FELA “without further proof of negligence”
  • “If the source of the information . . . was an outsider to the chain producing [the] business record, [R]ule 803(6) by itself does not permit admission of the information provided by the outsider.”

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Judges: Fagg, Ross, Magill

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