Nelson v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a FELA suicide claim is permissible if the railroad’s negligence drove the employee “beyond the point where he could rationally decide against killing himself”
• explaining that a FELA suicide claim is permissible if the railroad’s negligence drove the employee “beyond the point where he could rationally decide against killing himself”
• “The [suicide] note was perhaps the most important piece of physical evidence available as to the state of the decedent’s mind immediately prior to his death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).