United States v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
At Taw. Action by the United States against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. On demurrer to certain paragraphs of the answer.
1Opinion of the Court
COCHRAN, 'District Judge.
This cause is before me on plaintiff's demurrer to defendant’s answer to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth paragraphs of the petition. It is a prosecution under the Safety Appliance Act. The violation charged in each of these paragraphs is the hauling from Cov-ington, Ky., toward Silver Grove, Ky., about 10 miles away, of an interstate car with, a defective coupling apparatus. The answer presents the same defense to each of these paragraphs. That defense is that each of the cars was received from a connecting…
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