Keith v. Wheeling & L. E. Ry. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining “primary duty rule” in which “contributory negligence through violation of a company rule became assumption of risk,” but noting that “the 1939 amendment to [FELA] swept away assumption of risk as a defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).