Lonnie L. Wharf v. Burlington Northern Railroad Company, a Corporation, Lonnie L. Wharf v. Burlington Northern Railroad Company, a Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying rescue doctrine where rescuer was injured while attempting to free his coworker who was “trapped in [a] frozen ballast in a railroad car”
• setting forth the standard for granting a motion for a new trial due to “fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct”
• “The standards for granting new trials are essentially the same under both rules, although a Rule 59 motion, because it must be made within 10 days, may require a slightly lower showing than a motion under Rule 60.”
• “We remand for a new trial on damages 14 only.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).