Baltimore & O.R. Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co‪.‬

Earl Saunders (a citizen of West Virginia) instituted, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, a civil action for damages against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (hereinafter called B. & O.), a Maryland corporation. The object of this action was to recover money damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by Saunders in a collision between a motor truck in which Saunders was riding and an engine and train owned and operated by B. & O. The truck, at the time of the collision, was owned by United Fuel Gas Company (hereinafter called United), a West Virginia corporation, and was operated by M. C. Kirkhart, a citizen of West Virginia. Similar actions were instituted by Dearl Shamblin and Amos Hively. These three civil actions, since they involved identical issues of law and fact, were consolidated. We need consider here only the Saunders case.