Ex Parte Roe
Supreme Court of the United States
PETITION FOE WEIT OF MANDAMUS. The facts, which involve the Removal Acts and also the construction of the provisions of § 6 of the Employers’ Liability Act of 1908 as amended in 1910 relating to removal of causes arising under the latter act, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
By an action begun in a state court in Harrison County, Texas, W. L. Roe sought to recover from the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, a Federal corporation, $30,000 as damages for personal injuries sustained through its negligence while he was in its employ as a brakeman and while both were engaged in interstate commerce. In due time and in the accustomed way, the case was removed into the District Court of the United States for that district upon the sole ground that it was one arising under a law of the United States in that the defendant was chartered by an act of Congress. The plaintiff…
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